In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships
between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the
1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are
accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on screen—most often
with little apparent regard for the political context in which they
operate—Willis restores that context through close readings of a
range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new
auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino. Capturing
the political complexity of these films, Willis argues that race,
gender, and sexuality, as they are figured in the fantasy of
popular film, do not function separately, but rather inform and
determine each other’s meaning. She demonstrates how collective
anxieties regarding social difference are mapped onto big budget
movies like the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon series, Basic Instinct,
Fatal Attraction, Thelma and Louise, Terminator 2, and others.
Analyzing the artistic styles of directors Lynch, Tarantino, and
Lee, in such films as Wild at Heart, Pulp Fiction, and Do the Right
Thing, she investigates how these interactions of difference are
linked to the production of specific authorial styles, and how race
functions for each of these directors, particularly in relation to
gender identity, erotics, and fantasy.
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