Otherness in Hollywood cinema
By: Michael Richardson
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780826443526; 9780826463111
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-254), filmography (p. 238-247), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Hollywood cinema and the "Other"; title: The Other and the wilderness; title: The myth of the frontier; title: Chasing Chinese shadows : the Yellow Peril reconsidered; title: The exotic as spectacle; title: Otherness in the night : film noir; title: Of monsters and cold wars; title: The myth of the zombie; title: Apocalypse now on a borderline of consciousness; title: Refigurations of the exotic in contemporary cinema; title: Steven Spielberg and the sanctification of difference; title: Jim Jarmusch or communication in crisis; title: The persistence of King Kong.