Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 Book

Illustrations     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Identifying Others     13
Sampling Blackness: Music and Identification in the Films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee     37
"It's a Wise Child that Knows His Own Father": Pregnant Performances and Maternal Mythologies     77
Culturing Violence: Masculine Identificarion in Irish and African American Gangster Films     117
"Both Sides of the Epic": Identification and the Nonessentialist Western     151
Conclusion: Film Identification and Postmodern Identity Politics     191
Notes     195
Works Consulted     209
Index     239