Multicultural Films: a Reference Guide Available to Purchase

The “multicultural films” under discussion hail exclusively from the USA, but billed as “the first comprehensive resource dedicated to all kinds of films for all minority groups in the US”, this volume is certainly ambitious enough in scope. Walsh and Adams, both academics at Western Illinois University, offer synopses and critical analysis of some 163 titles, fictional and documentary, which address in one way or another issues of “race/ethnicity”. The compound term reflects the authors' liberal, inclusive stance, as they explain in a preface, “refuting the accuracy [of “race”] as a sound scientific concept, while admitting its continued relevance as...