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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Hybridity as Spectacle: Borders and Their Transgression in Contemporary Cinema Abstract: Many contemporary critics consider cultural hybridity to be the quintessential postmodern experience insofar as it conditions the erosion of boundaries between assumedly discrete identities and precipitates a re-visioning of the self as dynamic rather than static, multiplicitous rather than homogeneous, and mutable rather than fixed. In "Hybridity as Spectacle: Borders and Their Transgression in Contemporary Cinema," I engage with this much theorized concept by exploring the representation of cross-cultural exchange and identification in certain contemporary films from the United States and New Zealand. In featuring hybridized characters who, for a variety of reasons, transgress cultural boundaries, these films play with and at the very limits of certain categories of identity. Thus they are a particularly apt lens through which to view these categories as well as the assumptions--about, for example, the "authenticity" of culture and the "essential" nature of identity--that sustain them. |
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