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Screening Difference
How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
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2007
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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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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5583-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4329-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
281
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Preface No access
1 The Loud and the Silent: Global Film in the Twenty-First Century No access Pages 1 - 18
2 Children and Adults: Animated Cartoons No access Pages 19 - 42
3 Civilized and Savage: Antiquity Movies No access Pages 43 - 62
4 The Tamers and the Wild: Wilderness Adventure No access Pages 63 - 82
5 The Prolific and the Idle: Westerns and Southerns No access Pages 83 - 106
6 The Prude and the Lewd: Romantic and Erotic Encounters No access Pages 107 - 126
7 Helpers and Helpless: Colonial Adventure No access Pages 127 - 150
8 Friends and Foes: Spy, Action, and War Movies No access Pages 151 - 176
9 Believers and Heathens: Religious Films No access Pages 177 - 200
10 The Advanced and the Backward: Science Fiction and Space Adventure No access Pages 201 - 222
11 Other People's Dreams No access Pages 223 - 234
Glossary No access Pages 235 - 242
Notes No access Pages 243 - 256
References No access Pages 257 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 280
About the Author No access Pages 281 - 281
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