Otherness in Hollywood cinema
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New York :
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2010.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10422410 |
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.