Alice Maurice, The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 288 pp. + 30 b&w photos. ISBN 978-0-8166-7805-1 (paperback, $25), 978-0-8166-7804-1 (hardback, $75). Reviewed
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Situating Screen Bodies
Brian Bergen-Aurand
On the Cover Figure 1 Love Has No Gender, Race or Sexuality. Boitumelo and Collen. (August 2017) . This cover of Screen Bodies features a photograph by Collen Mfazwe entitled “Love Has No Gender, Race or Sexuality. Boitumelo and
Linda Howell, Ryan Bell, Laura Helen Marks, Jennifer L. Lieberman, and Joseph Christopher Schaub
sexuality, race, age, and suffering thread throughout the collection. In Growing Pains, writers consider Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, and Harrison Ford as case studies in the suffering that comes with aging in Hollywood. While Monroe and Ford represent the
Lieke Hettinga and Terrance Wooten
. Steinbock argues that sex “can be a site in which a felt sense of one's gendered, raced body can become sutured to an imperfect, wavering w/hole, not reducible to genitals or skin” (65). By exploring a medium heavily invested in the exposure of sex and
Looking for Something to Signify
Something to Signify Gender Performance and Cuban Masculinity in Viva
David Yagüe González
world is a stage, not multiple stages. Therefore, notions of race, nationality, or class were not considered until much later in the critical thinking process, until, that is, the introduction of queer of color critique. As Roderick Ferguson would
Groped and Gutted
Hollywood's Hegemonic Reimagining of Counterculture
Samantha Eddy
's commitment to white-male authority. Molina-Guzman finds that Hollywood productions can be consumed by mixed-gender and mixed-race audiences for the purposes of maximum profit. Yet ultimately, the white-male imagination behind the screen leads to the
“There’s nothing makeup cannot do”
Women Beauty Vloggers’ Self-Representations, Transformations, and #thepowerofmakeup
Michele White
applications and the power of makeup to RuPaul’s Drag Race challenge, where contestants self-presented with half-drag and half-male faces. Nikkie (2015b , 2015d ) also contextualizes her practice as drag with tutorials based on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Digitizing the Western Gaze
The End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign
Jessica Cammaert
to divide, rather than unite, transecting as is often the case, existing ethnic, and class divisions (Cammaert forthcoming). And this is precisely what makes End FGM problematic—the allusion/ illusion that regardless of race, religion, class or any
Introduction
Visibility and Screen Politics after the Transgender Tipping Point
Wibke Straube
. The series Pose is a fantastic example of how this might be slowly changing and how cultural spaces for alternative productions and diverse and intersecting positions between class, race, gender, and sexuality are emerging. Pose , featuring New York
Los Roldán and the Inclusion of Travesti Narratives
Representations of Gender-Nonconforming Identities in Argentinian Telenovelas
Martín Ponti
gender-nonconforming people who are on the female spectrum. The term's intersectional aspect includes race and class as part of its deployment and definition, since travestis are racialized as nonwhite following their exclusion from educational and formal