Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film

Matthew H. Bernstein

ISBN 10: 1860643043 / ISBN 13: 9781860643040

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997

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Synopsis: Using Edward Said's framework - and developments in colonialist and post-colonialist studies - to investigate orientalism in the cinemas of France, England and America, the contributors draw upon feminist analysis, genre criticism, psychoanalytic interpretation and political history. Starting with a demonstration of how colonialist and patriarchal ideologies interrelate in orientalist narrative films, following chapters explore camp and orientalism in selected musicals: the "family romance of orientalism" in "Madame Butterfly" and "Indochine", and Disney's "Aladdin" as a mirror of America's shifting perceptions of the Muslim world. The contributors include Dudley Andrew, Matthew Bernstein, Phebe Chao and Mary Hamer.

About the Author: Matthew Bernstein is professor, chair, and director of graduate studies in the Film Studies Department at Emory University. He is author or editor of four books, including "John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era" and "Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent".

Gaylyn Studlar is David May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of "This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age" and "In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic". She has co-edited four anthologies: "John Ford Made Westerns", "Visions of the East, Reflections in a Male Eye", "John Huston and the American Experience", and "Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster".

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Title: Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New