Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813522943 ISBN 13: 9780813522944

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The Sheik. P p 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 cin ma colonial.

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Synopsis

Orientalism is the politically-charged way in which Western artists have represented gender, race and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This anthology addresses orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. The 11 essays included utilize such areas as cultural studies, genre criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism. Among the films discussed are "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Sheik", "Caesar and Cleopatra", "The Letter", "Indochine" and several films of France's "cinema colonial" (such as "Pepe le Moko"). Contributors include: Dudley Andrew, Phebe Shih Chao, Mary Hamer, Marina Heung, Antonia Lant, Adrienne L. McLean, Janice Morgan, Alan Nadel, Charles O'Brien, and Ella Shohat.

About the Author

MATTHEWBERNSTEIN 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. GAYLYNSTUDLAR 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0813522943
• ISBN 13: 9780813522944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 325
• Editor: Bernstein Matthew, Studlar Gaylan