Otherness in Hollywood cinema

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Dettagli Bibliografici
Autore principale: Richardson, Michael, 1953-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Continuum, 2010.
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Sommario:
  • 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.