Screening difference : how Hollywood's blockbuster films imagine race, ethnicity, and culture

Ginneken, Jaap van 1943- (Author).

Summary: "Screening Difference takes us on a fascinating voyage through major movie blockbusters that deal with the encounter between "us"--Mainstream white Hollywood - and "them"--the filmic representations of other races, ethnicities, and cultures. Looking at subtle orientations in casting and makeup, sets and props, lighting and camera movements, and music and language, this lively book follows the best-known genres and sub-genres - from animated cartoons and wilderness films to romantic movies and colonial adventures. Screening Difference tracks the stories back to their origins and patiently dissects the hidden messages that have crept into them."--Jacket

Record details

OCLC: ocn856929644
ISBN: 0742555844
ISBN: 9780742555846
ISBN: 0742555836
ISBN: 9780742555839
ISBN: 1461643295
ISBN: 9781461643296
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)
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Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Note:	Translation of: Exotisch Hollywood : de verbeelding van andere culturen in recente succesfilms.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
Contents:	The loud and the silent: global film in the twenty-first century -- Children and adults: animated cartoons -- Civilized and savage: antiquity movies -- The tamers and the wild: wilderness adventures -- The prolific and the idle: westerns and southerns -- The prude and the lewd: romantic and erotic encounters -- Helpers and helpless: colonial adventure -- Friends and foes: spy, action, and war movies -- Believers and heathens: religious films -- The advanced and the backward: science fiction and space adventure -- Other people's dreams.
Note:	Text translated into English.