TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willis,Sharon
TI  - High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood films 
SN  - 0822320290 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PN1995.9.S47 W56 1998
U1  - 070 
PY  - 1998///], c1997
CY  - Durham, N.C.
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - African Americans in motion pictures
KW  - Sex role in motion pictures
N1  - Includes index; Pt. I; Battles of the Sexes; 1; Mutilated Masculinities and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons; 2; Insides Out: Public and Private Exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct; 3; Combative Femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 --; Pt. II; Ethnographies of the "White" Gaze; 4; Do the Wrong Thing: David Lynch's Perverse Style; 5; Tell the Right Story: Spike Lee and the Politics of Representative Style; 6; Borrowed "Style": Quentin Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity
N2  - In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s; Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino
ER  -