Otherness in Hollywood Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otherness in Hollywood Cinema write by Michael Richardson. This book was released on 2010-06-17. Otherness in Hollywood Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Otherness in Hollywood Cinema
Otherness in Hollywood Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otherness in Hollywood Cinema write by Michael Richardson. This book was released on 2010. Otherness in Hollywood Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Otherness in Hollywood Cinema
Otherness in Hollywood Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otherness in Hollywood Cinema write by Michael Richardson. This book was released on 2010-06-17. Otherness in Hollywood Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Foreign Devils
Foreign Devils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreign Devils write by Gábor Gergely. This book was released on 2012. Foreign Devils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Béla Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema. This book contends that Hollywood uses European émigré actors to speak of the experience of exile and the often-futile exilic attempts at integration into the host nation. This original, cross-disciplinary study incorporates a number of research interests in film studies - specifically Hollywood cinema, exile and émigré filmmakers, the Golden Age of the studio system, the Universal Horror cycle, and Poverty Row filmmaking. Foreign Devils combines the close reading of key texts with a theoretical framework that encompasses body theory and theories of space and nation with historical accounts of immigration to the United States and American concepts of nationhood through the symbolism of blood and death studies. Film studies students and academics, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as scholars in other disciplines, and anyone with an interest in Hollywood cinema, Central European culture in the 1930s-1950s, and European emigration to the United States will benefit from reading this book. Foreign Devils is also a valuable resource for courses in Hollywood filmmaking, émigré film, exile, Central European culture, nationalism studies, and Jewish studies.
Passport to Hollywood
Passport to Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passport to Hollywood write by James Morrison. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Passport to Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.
