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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. >

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Author

Richardson, Michael

Publisher

The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826463111

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Literary Fiction