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Informationen zum Autor Michael Richardson has published widely on surrealism, having edited two volumes of surrealist stories, The Identity of Things and The Myth of the World, a collection of Georges Bataille's writings on surrealism, The Absence of Myth, and a collection of writings by Caribbean surrealist writers, Refusal of the Shadow. He is currently visiting fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University. Michael Richardson is Visiting Fellow (honorary) at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His research interests focus on issues of representation and how they relate to the anthropological relation. He has published widely, having edited a collection of writings of Georges Bataille on surrealism ( The Absence of Myth , Verso, 1991) and surrealism and the Caribbean ( Refusal of the Shadow , Verso 1996), as well as writing the single authored books George Bataille (Routledge, 1994), The Experience of Culture (Sage, 2001) and Surrealism and Cinema (Berg, 2006). From 2004-7, he was Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. Klappentext A beautifully written study, mixing film studies with cultural studies, of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the "Other" throughout its history.> Zusammenfassung A study of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the 'Other' throughout its history. It argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. It examines a range of genres from the perspective of otherness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Hollywood Cinema and the "Other" 1. The Other and the Wilderness 2. The Myth of the Frontier 3. Chasing Chinese Shadows: The Yellow Peril Reconsidered 4. The Exotic as Spectacle 5. Otherness in the Night: Film Noir 6. Of Monsters and Cold Wars 7. The Myth of the Zombie 8. Apocalypse Now on a Borderline of Consciousness 9. Reconfigurations of the Exotic in Contemporary Cinema 10. Steven Spielberg and the Sanctification of Difference 11. Jim Jarmusch, or Communication in Crisis 12. The Persistence of King Kong Epilogue Filmography Bibliography Index ...
