edited by Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
University Press of Colorado, 2003
Paper: 978-0-87081-725-0
Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.M56X56 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43655

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of "critical visual thinking" and examine how racialization is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination. Not limited to classroom use, Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose race as a social construction in dialogue with other potential forms of difference and subject to political contestation.