Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film

Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation of identity.

Movies from Forrest Gump to Philadelphia , from Malcolm X to Falling Down have bee...