Performing Whiteness

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. Her previous books include Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema, also published by SUNY Press, and Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Performing Whiteness 2. Inventing Whiteness 3. White Face, White Space 4. The Bad-White Body 5. Performing the "Good" White 6. Performing the "Bad" White 7. Performing White Otherness Works Cited and Consulted About the Author Index

"Thought-provoking and brilliantly written and illustrated … will make excellent supplementary reading for those studying race and gender in film … Essential." — CHOICE"Performing Whiteness offers a different and innovative treatment of issues of race and ethnicity from the standpoint of examining 'the assumptions behind whiteness as a cultural norm.' I was constantly astounded by the breadth of cinematic texts and by the wealth of cultural material cited to illuminate their discussion." — Marcia Landy, author of The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930–1943"This book will leave no one indifferent. It is written with force and informed by references to hundreds of films that span the entire century, from the beginning of cinema up to now. Its views are unremitting and timely." — Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema