Description Using critical Race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Z lie Asava traces the history of mixed-Race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day.
She is the co-author of \'Race and Cinema\' in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies (2013), and has published many essays on race, gender and sexuality in American, Irish, French and Francophone.
Her monograph The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (2013) examines racial representations in Irish screen culture from the 1990s to the present day.
About the Author Zélie Asava is an Assistant Film Classifier at the Irish Film Classification Office and lectures on Film Studies at University College Dublin.
Mixed Race Cinemas contextualizes and critiques raced and \'post-race\' visual culture, using cinematic representations to illustrate changing definitions of Mixed identity across different historical and geographical contexts.
In doing so, it reveals the similarities and contrasts between American and French cinema in relation to recognising, visualising and constructing mixedness.
Through analyses of over 40 movies, and case studies of key films from the 1910s on, Mixed Race Cinemas illuminates landmark shifts in local and global cinema, exploring discourses of subjectivity, race, gender, sexuality and class.
This book evaluates the potential for moving beyond fixed racial binaries both onscreen and off by exploring actors and characters who embody the in-between.
With the 21st century being labelled the Mulatto Millennium, Mixed bodies are more prevalent than ever in the public sphere, yet all too often they continue to be positioned as exotic, strange and otherworldly, according to \'tragic mulatto\' tropes.
Mixed Race Cinemas covers over a hundred years of filmmaking to chart the development of (black/white) Mixed representations onscreen.
Description Using critical Race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Z lie Asava traces the history of mixed-Race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day
