IRISH AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Identifying Others -- 2. Sampling Blackness: Music and Identification in the Films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee -- 3. "It's a Wise Child that Knows His Own Father": Pregnant Performances and Maternal Mythologies -- 4. Culturing Violence: Masculine Identification in Irish and African American Gangster Films -- 5. "Both Sides of the Epic": Identification and the Nonessentialist Western -- Conclusion: Film Identification and Postmodern Identity Politics -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.