ISBN:
9780826443526
,
0826443524
,
9780826463111
,
0826463118
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 260 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Richardson, Michael, 1953 - Otherness in Hollywood cinema
DDC:
791.430973
Keywords:
Exoticism in motion pictures
;
Minorities in motion pictures
;
Outsiders in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures History 20th century
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Exoticism in motion pictures
;
Minorities in motion pictures
;
Outsiders in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures
;
United States
;
History
;
20th century
;
Los Angeles- Hollywood
;
Film
;
Außenseiter
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Hollywood cinema and the "Other" -- The Other and the wilderness -- The myth of the frontier -- Chasing Chinese shadows : the Yellow Peril reconsidered -- The exotic as spectacle -- Otherness in the night : film noir -- Of monsters and cold wars -- The myth of the zombie -- Apocalypse now on a borderline of consciousness -- Refigurations of the exotic in contemporary cinema -- Steven Spielberg and the sanctification of difference -- Jim Jarmusch or communication in crisis -- The persistence of King Kong.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (S. 248-254), filmography (S. 238-247), and index
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