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Informationen zum Autor Michael Richardson Klappentext In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson 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. He traces many of the ways in which Hollywood has constructed otherness, and discusses the extent to which those images have persisted and conditioned today's understanding. Hollywood was from the beginning teeming with people who had experienced cultural displacement. Coaxing the finest talents from around the world and needing to produce films with an almost universal appeal, Hollywood confounded American insularity while simultaneously presenting a vision of 'America' to the world. The book examines a range of genres from the perspective of otherness, including the Western, film noir, and zombie movies. Films discussed include Birth of a Nation, The New World, The Searchers, King Kong, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Jaws, and Dead Man. Erudite and highly informed, this is a sweeping survey of how the American film industry has portrayed the foreign and the exotic. 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...
