Screening Difference: How Hollywood’s Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture - Hardcover

Van Ginneken, Jaap; Ginneken, Van Jaap

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742555836 ISBN 13: 9780742555839

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as film versions pretend? That the myth of the sexually eager Hula girls is based on misunderstandings by early explorers? Screening Difference is a fascinating voyage through recent movie blockbusters dealing with encounters between ’us,’ based on white Hollywood, and ’them,’ the representations of other races, ethnicities, and cultures. Looking at orientations in casting, make-up, sets, props, lighting, camera movements, music, and language, this lively book follows the best-known genres, from animated cartoons to romantic movies. Screening Difference tracks the stories to their origins and dissects their hidden messages.

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Jaap van Ginneken is an independent author and lecturer on psychology, culture, and communication based in France. He has published seventeen books in thirty-two editions and five languages to date. He formerly taught in the area of entertainment studies and public opinion at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam as an associate professor.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0742555836
• ISBN 13: 9780742555839
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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