Otherness in Hollywood cinema / by Michael Richardson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Richardson, Michael, 1953-
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Continuum, 2010.
Subjects:	Exoticism in motion pictures. Minorities in motion pictures. Outsiders in motion pictures. Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:	xii, 260 pages
Format:	Book

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
Epilogue.