Projecting the World : Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (277 pages)
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series .
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Classical Hollywood and Transnational Culture -- Part 1: Islands and Identity -- 1. Isles of Fright: Gothic Tropics and Island Horror -- 2. Charlie Chan's Multicolored Passport: Territorial Hawaii and Classical Hollywood's Transnational "Foreign" Detective -- 3. "The Jungle Is My Home": Questions of Belonging, Exile, and the Negotiation of Foreign Spaces in the Tarzan Films of Johnny Weissmuller -- 4. Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan -- Part 2: European Vacations -- 5. America's Travelogue Romance with Italy, 1953-1969 -- 6. Prestige Film Aesthetics and Europeanized Hollywood in the 1950s -- 7. "Our Love Is Here to Stay": Transatlantic Relations in 1950s Hollywood Musicals about Paris -- Part 3: Desert and Savannah Adventures -- 8. In the Foucauldian Mirror: Budd Boetticher's Mexico and the United States in the 1950s -- 9. From the Pampas to the Jockey Club: Familiar Exoticism in Hollywood's Argentina -- 10. John Wayne's Africa: European Colonialism versus U.S. Global Leadership in Legend of the Lost (1957) -- Contributors -- Index.
Discussion of international culture and politics in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s to 1960s.
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National characteristics in motion pictures. Culture in motion pictures. Motion pictures-United States-History-20th century. Motion picture industry-United States. Mass media and culture.