Sam B. GirgusAmerica on Film
Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America
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.
