ISBN:
9780826463111
,
9780826443526
,
9781441147318
Language:
English
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [s.l.] eblib Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Richardson, Michael, 1953 - Otherness in Hollywood cinema
DDC:
791.430973
Keywords:
Exoticism in motion pictures
;
Minorities in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures ; United States ; History ; 20th century
;
Outsiders in motion pictures
;
Electronic books
;
Exoticism in motion pictures
;
Minorities in motion pictures
;
Outsiders in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures
;
United States
;
History
;
20th century
;
Los Angeles- Hollywood
;
Film
;
Außenseiter
Abstract:
A beautifully written study, mixing film studies with cultural studies, of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the "Other" throughout its history.
Abstract:
Intro -- 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 -- Chapter 11 Jim Jarmusch or Communication in Crisis -- Chapter 12 The Persistence of King Kong -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- 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.
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URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=592457
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