Selected Essays on Cinema and Multiculturalism

This is a selective collection of essays from the Cinema and Multiculturalism Conference held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell to study the field of cinema in its interdisciplinary and multiculturalist context. The tone was set by Rimanelli's keynote address Screen as Window/and Screen as Mirror and it was deftly followed by the other participants who discussed and presented issues of multiculturalism in films such as Independence Day. The Decameron, Sirens, and Household Saints. Other aspects of cinematographic multiculturalism complete the study: homosexuality, the femme fatale, Western/Gangster films, Puerto Rican films and the Pittsburgh exhibitions at beginning of the last century.