Filming difference : actors, directors, producers, and writers on gender, race, and sexuality in film / edited by Daniel Bernardi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-356) and index.

Exposing bodies. Disability is us: remembering, recovering, and remaking the image of disability / Laura Kissel -- "I saw you naked": "hard" acting in "gay" movies / Christopher Bradley -- Pain and pleasure in the flesh of Machiko Saito's experimental movies / Celine ParrenÌas Shimizu -- Border visions. Framing identities/the evolving self: beyond the academic director / Cristina Kotz Cornejo -- Indigenism, (in)visibility: notes on migratory film / John Thornton Caldwell -- Traversing cinematic borders: an interview with Paul Espinosa / Daniel Bernardi -- Global identities. Del otro lado: border crossings, disappearing souls, and other transgressions / C.A. Griffith -- Faith in sexual difference: the inquisition of a creative process / Daniel S. Cutrara -- Dead conversations on art and politics: JoseÌ Gudalupe Posada interviews John Jota LeanÌos / John Jota LeanÌos -- Independent ambitions. Neither color blind, nor near-sighted: representation, race, and the academic filmmaker / Aaron Greer -- Performing to perform the other: developing roles different from oneself / Sheldon Schiffer -- Cinematic reservations: an interview with Chris Eyre / Yuri Makino -- True Hollywood stories. "And maybe there is a way to give Hollywood the kick in the ass that it needs": an interview with filmmaker Karyn Kusama / Dan Rybicky -- From Selena to Walkout: an interview with Moctesuma Esparza / Kathryn F. GalaÌn -- Negotiating the politics of (in)difference in contemporary Hollywood: an interview with Kimberly Peirce / Denise Mann -- Televising difference: an interview with Paris Barclay / Kevin Sandler.