| Working the Affect Shift: Latina Service Workers in U.S. Film Contributor(s): Nava, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 1612335136 ISBN-13: 9781612335131 Publisher: Brown Walker Press (FL) OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2011028637 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.58 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Working the Affect Shift explores the changing U.S. racial and political economic context of Latina working-class film and media images, and how Ethnic, Cultural, Film, and Feminist Studies have contributed to sociologically understanding them. We can rethink our orientation to so-called "stereotypes" by focusing on our forward-looking, positive neoliberal ideology as related to our "national forgetting of collective racial injury." Each film and media image analyzed herein offers an example of how the fraught relational matrices of race, class, gender, and sexual identities continue to shape national politics despite our national commitment (on the political Right and Left) to "multiculturalism." Using Latina service workers as examples, this volume offers ways to think productively toward re-shaping our national identity by envisioning change without negating historical injuries suffered by both minorities and whites, males and females. |