{"product_id":"irish-and-african-american-cinema-maria-pramaggiore-9780791470961","title":"Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow these two cinemas portray complex and changing notions of national and racial identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including \u003ci\u003eDo the Right Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crying Game\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoyz N the Hood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Snapper\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHe Got Game\u003c\/i\u003e, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois's potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both\/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Pramaggiore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791470962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791470961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 6.14w x 0.62d","brand":"Maria Pramaggiore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096729264383,"sku":"9780791470961","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irish-and-african-american-cinema-maria-pramaggiore-9780791470961","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}