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Visions of the East : orientalism in film

Matthew Bernstein (Editor), Gaylyn Studlar (Editor)
Print Book, English, 1997
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1997
viii, 330 páginas : ilustraciones, fotografías en blanco y negro ; 23 cm
9780813522944, 9780813522951, 0813522943, 0813522951
883153280
Acknowledgments     Introduction - Matthew Bernstein Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema - Ella Shohat PART ONE HISTORICAL AND GENERIC CONTEXTS     The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania - Antonia Lant ``Out-Salomeing Salome'': Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism - Gaylyn Studlar The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole - Andrienne L. McLean The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine - Marina Heung A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Aladdin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East - Alan Nadel PART TWO NATIONAL CINEMAS     The ``Cinema colonial'' of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice - Charles O'Brien Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic - Dudley Andrew In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko - Janice Morgon Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra - Mary Hamer Reading The Letter in a Postcolonial World - Phebe Shih Chao Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography About the Contributors Index