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Projecting the World : Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media SeriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (277 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814343074
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Projecting the WorldDDC classification:
  • 791.43/658
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N33 .P765 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Discussion of international culture and politics in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s to 1960s.
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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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