Projecting the World: Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood [1 ed.] 0814343066, 9780814343067

The classical Hollywood films that were released between the 1930s and 1960s were some of the most famous products of gl

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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Classical Hollywood and Transnational Culture
Part 1: Islands and Identity
1. Isles of Fright: Gothic Tropics and Island Horror
2. Charlie Chan’s Multicolored Passport: Territorial Hawaii and Classical Hollywood’s Transnational “Foreign” Detective
3. “The Jungle Is My Home”: Questions of Belonging, Exile, and the Negotiation of Foreign Spaces in the Tarzan Films of Johnny Weissmuller
4. Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Josef von Sternberg’s Anatahan
Part 2: European Vacations
5. America’s Travelogue Romance with Italy, 1953–1969
6. Prestige Film Aesthetics and Europeanized Hollywood in the 1950s
7. “Our Love Is Here to Stay”: Transatlantic Relations in 1950s Hollywood Musicals about Paris
Part 3: Desert and Savannah Adventures
8. In the Foucauldian Mirror: Budd Boetticher’s Mexico and the United States in the 1950s
9. From the Pampas to the Jockey Club: Familiar Exoticism in Hollywood’s Argentina
10. John Wayne’s Africa: European Colonialism versus U.S. Global Leadership in Legend of the Lost (1957)
Contributors
Index

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