Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers on Gender, Race and Sexuality in Film PDF
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filming difference TT44998899..iinnddbb ii 22//2277//0099 66::5566::5599 AAMM THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK F I L M D I F F E R E N C E N Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, G and Sexuality in Film Edited by Daniel Bernardi University of Texas Press Austin, TX TT44998899..iinnddbb iiiiii 22//2277//0099 66::5566::5599 AAMM Copyright © 2009 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2009 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Filming difference : actors, directors, producers, and writers on gen- der, race, and sexuality in fi lm / edited by Daniel Bernardi. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-71923-1 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-292-71974-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Social problems in motion pictures. 2. Sex roles in motion pictures. 3. Race relations in motion pictures. 4. Motion picture producers and directors—United States—Interviews. 5. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Interviews. 6. Screenwriters—United States—Interviews. I. Bernardi, Daniel, 1964– pn1995.9.s62f55 2009 791.43'6355—dc22 2008049869 TT44998899..iinnddbb iivv 22//2277//0099 66::5566::5599 AAMM I dedicate this book to my former students, particularly: Rachel “God Is in the Details” Adams Kathryn “In and Out of the Rabbit Hole” Bergeron Mike “Anything But a Flash in the Pan” Burk Leigh “The Nose” Baltzer David “Hardest Working Man in the Business” Carol Andrea “Design on a Dime” DeFrancisco Young Eun “Help Me Get You Out of My Way” Chae Colorful Chiara Ferrari Michael “New Jack” Green Jorge “I Don’t Do Hugs” Jake Judith’s Lacertosa Leslie “Trek Star” Lamb Michelle “Momma” Martinez Barry “Extraterrestrial Timeline” McGuire Michelle “It’s All About MySpace” McCormick Jana “Alien Hybrid” Minka Crystal “You Talking to Me?” Quintero www.Eliza/Robinson Callen’s “A Punk” Shutters Katherine “Reaching for the Stars” Warner Ayanna “You Better Not Be Talkin’ to Me” Whitworth-Barner Yang “Just Do It” Xiang Thank you for pushing me to be a better teacher! TT44998899..iinnddbb vv 22//2277//0099 66::5577::0000 AAMM THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Acknowledgments ix Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers 1 daniel bernardi part 1 exposing bodies 1 Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering, and Remaking the Image of Disability 17 laura kissel 2 “I Saw You Naked”: “Hard” Acting in “Gay” Movies 41 christopher bradley 3 Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito’s Experimental Movies 55 celine parren˜as shimizu part 2 border visions 4 Framing Identities / The Evolving Self: Beyond the Academic Director 75 cristina kotz cornejo 5 Indigenism, (In)Visibility: Notes on Migratory Film 95 john thornton caldwell 6 Traversing Cinematic Borders: An Interview with Paul Espinosa 119 daniel bernardi part 3 global identities 7 Del Otro Lado: Border Crossings, Disappearing Souls, and Other Transgressions 139 c. a. griffith TT44998899..iinnddbb vviiii 22//2277//0099 66::5577::0000 AAMM viii 8 Faith in Sexual Difference: The Inquisition of a Creative Process 165 daniel s. cutrara 9 Dead Conversations on Art and Politics: José Guadalupe Posada Interviews John Jota Leaños 187 john jota lean˜os part 4 independent ambitions 10 Neither Color Blind, Nor Near-Sighted: Representation, Race, and the Role of the Academic Filmmaker 209 aaron greer filming 11 Performing to Perform the Other: difference Developing Roles Different from Oneself 223 sheldon schiffer 12 Cinematic Reservations: An Interview with Chris Eyre 247 yuri makino part 5 true hollywood stories 13 “And Maybe There Is a Way to Give Hollywood the Kick in the Ass That It Needs”: An Interview with Filmmaker Karyn Kusama 263 dan rybicky 14 From Selena to Walkout: An Interview with Moctesuma Esparza 289 kathryn f. gala´n 15 Negotiating the Politics of (In)Difference in Contemporary Hollywood: An Interview with Kimberly Peirce 303 denise mann 16 Televising Difference: An Interview with Paris Barclay 323 kevin sandler Selected Bibliography 343 chiara ferrari Contributors 357 Index 363 0000--TT44998899--FFMM--RRVV11..iinndddd vviiiiii 33//1122//0099 1122::0077::4433 PPMM Acknowledgments I thank the contributors to this volume for sticking with the project as it went through four years of revision. I also thank the research assistants who helped put this project to- gether: Michael Green, Deydra Linares, and Alexis Cabrera. I appreciate the help and extra effort! Finally and especially, I thank my wife, Helen Na, for giving me room to fi nish this and other projects as we started raising our ItKoRican son, Sojin Rock Sojin Rock Soto Bernardi Soto Bernardi (a.k.a. El Jefe). TT44998899..iinnddbb iixx 22//2277//0099 66::5577::0000 AAMM
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