Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Hollywood Cinema and the 'Other' -- Chapter 1 The Other and the Wilderness -- Chapter 2 The Myth of the Frontier -- Chapter 3 Chasing Chinese Shadows: The Yellow Peril Reconsidered -- Chapter 4 The Exotic as Spectacle -- Chapter 5 Otherness in the Night: Film Noir -- Chapter 6 Of Monsters and Cold Wars -- Chapter 7 The Myth of the Zombie -- Chapter 8 Apocalypse Now on a Borderline of Consciousness -- Chapter 9 Refigurations of the Exotic in Contemporary Cinema -- Chapter 10 Steven Spielberg and the Sanctification of Difference -- Chapter 11 Jim Jarmusch or Communication in Crisis -- Chapter 12 The Persistence of King Kong -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.