Performing difference : representations of "the other" in film and theater / edited by Jonathan C. Friedman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I. Race and ethnicity. A conscience for Hollywood? : the 'social issue' films of Twentieth Century Fox, 1947-1950 / Jonathan C. Friedman -- Grounding race : Powder and the shifting terrain of whiteness / Dalton Anthony Jones -- Shylock : Shakespeare's sympathetic 'other' / Paul Pfeiffer -- The 'new marginality' : representations of the favela in recent Brazilian cinema / Tia Malkin-Fontecchio -- Liminal spaces in Faith Akin's Gegen die Wand/Head on : orientalism vs. globalization / Margarete Landwehr -- Fantasies on loss : melancholia and ethnicity in Israeli cinema / Raz Yosef -- Cinematic Asian representation in Hollywood / Jun Xing -- Passing : a reading on a Jewish woman's identity / Bonnie Morris.

Section II. Gender and sexual orientation. 'This manifest indignity' : Hollywood's portrayal of the gender integration of the Armed Forces in the World War II era / Melissa Ziobro -- Batting for the other team : masculinity, homosexuality, and sports in contemporary drama and film / John M. Clum -- Mestiza feminisms and Julie Taymor's Frida / Geetha Ramanathan -- The problematic ethnic and sexual discourses of Eytan Fox's The bubble / Jonathan C. Friedman.

Section III. The Holocaust, war, and genocide. Time and representation : generic transformations and historicist interpretations of Holocaust films / Ilan Avisar -- The bystander and the 'other' in Holocaust films / John J. Michalczyk and Susan A. Michalczyk -- Fiend, foe and friend : the German image in American World War II films / Christopher Thomas -- Representations of genocide in recent films / Edward C. Hanes -- Genocide and redemption in the modern Western / William L. Hewitt.