Otherness in Hollywood Cinema.

In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. He traces many of the ways in which Hollywood has constructed other...

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Main Author: Richardson, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.
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505 0 |a Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Hollywood Cinema and the 'Other'; Chapter 1 The Other and the Wilderness; Chapter 2 The Myth of the Frontier; Chapter 3 Chasing Chinese Shadows: The Yellow Peril Reconsidered; Chapter 4 The Exotic as Spectacle; Chapter 5 Otherness in the Night: Film Noir; Chapter 6 Of Monsters and Cold Wars; Chapter 7 The Myth of the Zombie; Chapter 8 Apocalypse Now on a Borderline of Consciousness; Chapter 9 Refigurations of the Exotic in Contemporary Cinema; Chapter 10 Steven Spielberg and the Sanctification of Difference. 
505 8 |a Chapter 11 Jim Jarmusch or Communication in CrisisChapter 12 The Persistence of King Kong; Epilogue; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. He traces many of the ways in which Hollywood has constructed otherness, and discusses the extent to which those images have persisted and conditioned today's understanding. Hollywood was from the beginning teeming with people who had experienced cultural displacement.€ Coaxing the finest talents from around the world and needing to produce films with an almo. 
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