| Contents |
Introduction : Hollywood cinema and the "Other" -- The Other and the wilderness -- The myth of the frontier -- Chasing Chinese shadows : the Yellow Peril reconsidered -- The exotic as spectacle -- Otherness in the night : film noir -- Of monsters and cold wars -- The myth of the zombie -- Apocalypse now on a borderline of consciousness -- Refigurations of the exotic in contemporary cinema -- Steven Spielberg and the sanctification of difference -- Jim Jarmusch or communication in crisis -- The persistence of King Kong. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-254), filmography (p. 238-247), and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009047736 |
| ISBN | 9780826443526 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0826443524 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780826463111 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0826463118 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
