Screening Difference

How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

Автор: Jaap van Ginneken

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Rowman & Littlefield

Наличност: Външен склад

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Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as the Disney and other fi...

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Автор

Jaap van Ginneken

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2007

страници

294

EAN

9780742555839

ISBN

0742555836

Enbook ID

04906754

Издател

Rowman & Littlefield

Теглоt

576

Размери

161 x 237 x 28

Пълно описание

Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as the Disney and other film versions of those events pretend? That Godzilla was originally an anti-American and anti-nuclear movie, heavily cut and supplemented with new material? That Zorro was not created by an American author but derived from the much older Mexican struggle for independence? That Anna and the King was largely invented? That the myth of the sexually eager Hula girls is based on misunderstandings by the first explorers? That Black Hawk Down and many other war movies were censored and indirectly subsidized by the Pentagon? Screening Difference takes us on a fascinating voyage through major movie blockbusters that deal with the encounter between 'us,' based on white Hollywood, and 'them,' the filmic representations of other races, ethnicities, and cultures. Looking at subtle orientations in casting and make-up, sets and props, lighting and camera movements, music and language, this lively book follows the best-known genres and subgenres: from animated cartoons to wilderness films, from romantic movies to colonial adventures. Screening Difference tracks the stories back to their origins and patiently dissects the hidden messages that have gradually crept into them.

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