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A critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemas * Offers an original, critical reappraisal of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema * Includes eighteen case studies that are embedded in rich contextual detail and discussions of thematically similar films * Brings exoticism into dialogue with cognate frameworks that conceptualise cross-cultural encounters, including primitivism, Orientalism, cultural translation, cultural appropriation, cosmopolitanism and autoethnography, thereby shifting the terms of the debate into a direction that opens new lines of inquiry * Analyses examples of global art, Indigenous and popular mainstream cinema from East Asia, India, South America, Canada, Australia, Europe and the US * Comes with a companion website: www.exotic-cinema.org __Exotic Cinema__ is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining regimes of visuality such as the imperial, the ethnographic and the exotic gaze, which have colonised our minds and ways of looking, Daniela Berghahn makes an important contribu

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Author

Daniela Berghahn

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474474238

Category

nonfiction