{"id":4822,"date":"2010-01-29T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:33:20","slug":"mixed-race-issues-in-the-american-and-french-melodrama-an-analysis-of-the-imitation-of-life-films-stahl-usa-1934-sirk-usa-1959-and-metisse-kassovitz-france-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4822","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and M\u00e9tisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and M\u00e9tisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993)<\/em><\/strong> In: Martin McLoone &amp; Kevin Rockett, eds. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourcourtspress.ie\/product.php?intProductID=743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Films, Global Cinema, Studies in Irish Film 4<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourcourtspress.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four Courts Press<\/a><br \/>\n2007<br \/>\n176 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-1-84682-081-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zelieasava.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Z\u00e9lie Asava<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University College Dublin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The chapter analyses the positionalities of the mixed-race female protagonists of each film and the visualisation of their mixed-race identity.\u00a0 It considers aspects of their struggle for self-definition against the director\u2019s visual clues about their \u2018true\u2019 racial space.\u00a0 It also explores the possibility in these films for a representation of mixed identity that surpasses the stereotypes of the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tragic mulatto<\/a>\u2019 torn between black and white worlds (as represented by mothers in the American films and lovers\/parents in the French film).\u00a0 <strong>Finally the article &#8211; as with my thesis &#8211; considers the limitations of American cinema in transcending binaried representations of race and the alternatives which French cinema offers, in order to consider the possibility for a mixed-race representative model which would visualise the multiplicity and \u2018<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prelectur.stanford.edu\/lecturers\/bhabha\/interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Third Space<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2019, as <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaas\/faculty\/homi_bhabha\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Homi K. Bhabha<\/strong><\/a><strong> put it, of mixed-race identity.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and M\u00e9tisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993) In: Martin McLoone &amp; Kevin Rockett, eds. Irish Films, Global Cinema, Studies in Irish Film 4. Four Courts Press 2007 176 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84682-081-6 Z\u00e9lie Asava University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,1933,28,8,20,25],"tags":[1934,96,79,245],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-four-courts-press","tag-france","tag-tragic-mulatto","tag-zelie-asava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62363,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/62363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}