Table of contents : Acknowledgments Contents List of Figures 1 Introduction 2 The Western and the Eastern Hollywood Motion Pictures The Western The ‘Eastern’ (See p 3) Romance 3 Treasure and Thugs: The East as Mystery and Disorder The Moonstone 4 The Eastern Desert and the Lone Hero The Desert Anti-Empire Film in Intervening Decades The English Patient 5 The Colonial Gaze, Modernism, and the Trauma of the Tropics Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 6 The East and Love in the Time of Decolonization 7 Conclusion The Global Eastern Afterword Bibliography Index