Projecting the world : representing the "foreign" in classical Hollywood
Title:
Projecting the world : representing the "foreign" in classical Hollywood
Author:
Cooper, Anna, editor.
ISBN:
9780814343074
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 268 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Contents:
Introduction: Classical Hollywood and Transnational Culture / Anna Cooper and Russell Meeuf -- Part I: Islands and Identity -- Isles of Fright: Gothic Tropics and Island Horror / Louis Bayman -- Charlie Chan's Multicolored Passport: Territorial Hawaii and Classical Hollywood's Transnational "Foreign" Detective / Elizabeth Rawitsch -- "The Jungle Is My Home": Questions of Belonging, Exile, and the Negotiation of Foreign Spaces in the Tarzan Films of Johnny Weissmuller / Gábor Gergely -- Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan / Edward K. Chan -- Part 2: European Vacations -- America's Travelogue Romance with Italy, 1953-1969 / Ian Jarvie -- Prestige Film Aesthetics and Europeanized Hollywood in the 1950s / Chris Cagle -- "Our Love Is Here to Stay": Transatlantic Relations in 1950s Hollywood Musicals about Paris / Anna Cooper -- Part 3: Desert and Savannah Adventures -- In the Foucauldian Mirror: Budd Boetticher's Mexico and the United States in the 1950s / Saverio Giovacchini -- From the Pampas to the Jockey Club: Familiar Exoticism in Hollywood's Argentina / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zárate, and Patricia Haydee Vazquez -- John Wayne's Africa: European Colonialism versus U. S. Global Leadership in Legend of the Lost (1957) / Russell Meeuf.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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