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Captive Bodies examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity, seeking to revisualize American cinema through the lens of critical discourse on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and postcolonial critiques of cinematic constructions of "whiteness," "blackness," gender, and sexuality. Captivity is also examined here in relation to both those in front and behind the camera. Are we "subject" to others? Are we "bound" and "captive" in images? Are we "captive" bodies and "captive" audiences, held hostage to the spectacles of voyeuristic pleasure? Are those behind the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1999State University of New York Press · 249 pages · 9780791441558
Captivity in motion picturesImperialism in motion picturesMotion picture industryMotion picturesPolitical aspectsPolitical aspects of Motion picturesRacism in motion picturesSexism in motion pictures