Publication Date
2-2012
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Abstract
Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005) follows a range of diverse but intersecting characters who, in their entirety, are meant to represent a social landscape: modern American urban existence. Through an ensemble cast and a multi-story structure, the film depicts a circuitous society in which one part affects other parts that, in turn, affect all parts.
The film is structured by means of three entangled, sometimes complementary, sometimes competing, cultural discourses. The first discourse is race. In a deeply troubling way, race is most overtly what the film is “about.” In the world of the film, virtually every character is at some point explicitly racist. Additionally, in certain subplots, racial discourse is inextricably intertwined with gender.
Page Range
41-53
Book Title
Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas
Book Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Book Editor(s)
Christine Gledhill
Book ISBN
9780252036613
Recommended Citation
Pribram, E. Deidre Ph.D., "Circulating Emotion: Race, Gender, and Genre in Crash" (2012). Faculty Publications: Communication. 7.
https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/com_facpub/7
Document Version
Post Print
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