Transnational orientalisms in contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema / edited by Michele C Dávila Gonçalves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dávila Gonçalves, Michele C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Spain--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

In recent decades in Spain and Latin America, transnational voices, typically stereotyped, alienated or co-opted in the Western world, have been gaining increasing presence in cultural texts. The transnational representation of the "Oriental" subject, namely Arabs and Jews, Chinese and other ethnic groups that have migrated to Spain and Latin America either voluntarily or forcefully, is now being seen anew in both literature and cinema. This book explores Orientalism beyond literature, in which it has already garnered attention, to examine the new ways of seeing and interpreting both the Middl

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8872-9

OCLC:

938788245