false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437208m/917239.jpg 917239 2 Could Woody Allen have made the same movies if he weren't Jewish? Would John Ford's pictures have been different if he weren't an Irish Catholic? Is Spike Lee's color an important ingredient in his movie-making? Such engaging issues are considered in Unspeakable Images, a volume that encourages fresh thinking and research about ethnic issues and the American cinema. In fourteen chapters on topics ranging from film comedy to reporter movies to Latins in Manhattan, contributors from diverse disciplines explore ethnicity as a broad, complex, multilayered concept. The book's first section scrutinizes ethnicity within the context of traditional modes of film analysis---historical, auteurist, and generic. Essays in the second section relate ethnicity to broader areas of critical thought such as cultural studies, ethnography, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and class studies, analyzing how each intersects and amplifies the other. 902314 1 4 1991 Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema total:1|4:1| 1 4 1 0 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Sat Dec 15 12:58:10 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 12:58:36 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=917239