High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films

Author/Contributor(s):	Willis, Sharon
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/24/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In HIGH CONTRAST, author Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood films from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way such differences are sensationalized and eroticized on screen--with little regard for political context--Willis restores that context through close reviews of a wide range of movies, such as LETHAL WEAPON, FATAL ATTRACTION, PULP FICTION, and others.