Projecting the World : Representing the Foreign in Classical Hollywood.
The classical Hollywood films that were released between the 1930s and 1960s were some of the most famous products of global trade, crisscrossing borders and rising to international dominance. In analyzing a series of Hollywood films that illustrate moments of nuanced transnational engagement with t...
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Wayne State University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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Table of 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, 1953-19696. 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.