Elsewhere in American Cinema : How Hollywood Represents the World.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Assouly, Julie, editor.

Heboyan, Esther, editor.

Series:

World Cinema.

World Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exoticism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures, American.

Orientalism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

An in-depth exploration of how Hollywood represents the foreign 'elsewhere', from the silent era to the present day, and how this has shaped the way we see the world.

Contents:

Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction – “Elsewhere in US Cinema, an Intercultural, Interdisciplinary and Highly Political Subject”- Julie Assouly (Associate professor, University of Artois, France) Part I - US HEGEMONY, ELSEWHERE AS A CONFLICT ZONE AND GEOPOLITICAL ‘NEW FRONTIERS’ 1- Milan Hain (Associate professor, Palacký University, Czech Republic) – “When Hollywood Cared: The Representation of Czechoslovakia in Hollywood Cinema of World War II” 2- Julie Assouly (Associate professor, University of Artois, France) – “Manifest Destiny Beyond Borders, from the American West to the Middle East” 3- Antoine Gaudin (Associate professor, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) – “From the War Reporter to the Traveler-Entrepreneur. Evolutions of the American protagonist in Films About Countries at War (1980 – 2020)” 4- Sara El Majhad (Lecturer, University of Aix-Marseille, France) – “A Terrorist Nation: Gaddafi’s Libya on American Screens” 5- Costanza Salvi (Lecturer, University of Zaragoza, Spain) – “John Ford’s Mexico: The Fugitive (1947)” Part II - MUSICAL ELSEWHERES 6- W. Anthony Sheppard (Marylin and Arthur Levitt Professor of Music, Williams College, Mass.) – “Compelled by the Primitive in Cinematic Dance” 7- Mikaël Toulza (Associate Professor, University of Lille) – “To the Rhythm of the Drums: Rada Drums and Territorialized Exotic Images in Voodoo Zombi Films” 8- Esther Heboyan (Emeritus professor, University of Artois, France) – “Late Ottoman Musical Folklore as Marker of Elia Kazan’s Intimate and Violent Elsewhere” Part III - ELSEWHERE THROUGH STEREOTYPICAL MODELS AND COUNTERMODELS 9- Abderrahmene Bourenane (Postdoctoral fellow, Le Mans University, France) – “Anti-Orientalism in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005)” 10- Barbora Kaplánková (PhD candidate, Palacký University) – “The Fairy Tale Europe of the American Rom-Com” 11- Emmanuel Plasseraud (Professor, Picardie Jules Verne University, France) – “The Action Takes Place in Poland, That Is to Say Nowhere... Dream-like Poland in David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006)” 12- Julie Assouly (Associate professor, University of Artois, France) – “Wes Anderson’s Transatlantic Cinema: Beyond Stereotypical French Culture” Bibliography

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ISBN:

1-350-56198-3

1-350-56196-7

1-350-56197-5

OCLC:

1587075673