Screening Difference: How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture - Softcover

Van Ginneken, Jaap

 
9780742555846: Screening Difference: How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0742555844 ISBN 13: 9780742555846
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0742555844
ISBN 13 
9780742555846
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
294
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