Abstract
Part I. Embodying a New Race for America: The Question of American Hope in Mississippi Masala and Lone Star: 1. Mississippi Masala: merging ethnic and racial images 2. Lone Star: an archeology of American culture and the American psyche Part II. Great Fights for the Century: 3. Raging Bull: revisioning the body, soul and cinema 4. The black gladiator and the Spartacus syndrome: race, redemption, and the ring Part III. The Image and the Word: Literature and Film: 5. 'Fresh starts': Bugsy, The Great Gatsby, and the American dream 6. Imaging masochism and the politics of pain: 'facing' the word in the cinetext of Seize the Day Part IV. Documentary and Fiction: 7. Documenting the body in Modern Times: Love, play, and repression in Chaplin's silent classic 8. Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, and the rebirth of Malcolm X: cinetext for a black American dream.
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