Otherness in Hollywood cinema
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
2010.
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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.