Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film
The Sheik. Pépé le Moko. Casablanca. Aladdin. Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically-charged way in which western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed includeThe Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and several films of France's cinéma colonial.

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Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film
The Sheik. Pépé le Moko. Casablanca. Aladdin. Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically-charged way in which western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed includeThe Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and several films of France's cinéma colonial.

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Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film

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Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film

Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film

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The Sheik. Pépé le Moko. Casablanca. Aladdin. Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically-charged way in which western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed includeThe Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and several films of France's cinéma colonial.


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ISBN-13: 9780813522951
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1997
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

MATTHEW BERNSTEIN is an associate professor of film studies at Emory University. He is the author of Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent and a former coordinating editor of The Velvet Light Trap.

GAYLYN STUDLAR is a professor of English and film and video studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic and This Mad Masquerade: Masculinity in the Jazz Age.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments    
Introduction - Matthew Bernstein
Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema - Ella Shohat
PART ONE HISTORICAL AND GENERIC CONTEXTS    
The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania - Antonia Lant
&‘grave;Out-Salomeing Salome'': Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism - Gaylyn Studlar
The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole - Andrienne L. McLean
The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine - Marina Heung
A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Aladdin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East - Alan Nadel
PART TWO NATIONAL CINEMAS    
The &‘grave;Cinema colonial'' of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice - Charles O'Brien
Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic - Dudley Andrew
In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko - Janice Morgon
Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra - Mary Hamer
Reading The Letter in a Postcolonial World - Phebe Shih Chao
Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
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