Otherness in Hollywood Cinema

by Michael Richardson

Book Overview

In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. He traces many of the ways in which Hollywood has constructed otherness, and discusses the extent to which those images have persisted and conditioned today's understanding.

Hollywood was from the beginning teeming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826443524
• ISBN13: 9780826443526
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"