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Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Publicity
Subject: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1945)

Call No: 626-054 VIS
Author: Berstein, Matthew; Studlar, Gaylyn
Source: US
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c1997
PhysDes: ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; INDOCHINE (FR, Regis Wargnier, 1992); ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992); PEPE LE MOKO (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1937); CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1945)
Summary: "Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically charged way in which Western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed include The Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and severeal films of France's 'cinema colonial'."-BOOK BLURB
Notes: includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and index
ISBN: 0813522951
Contents: Acknowledgements / Matthew Bernstein -- Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania / Antonia Lant --"Out-Salomeing Salome": Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism / Gaylyn Studlar -- The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole / Andrienne L. McLean -- The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine / Marina Heung -- A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Alladin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East / Alan Nadel -- The "Cinema colonial" of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice / Charles O'Brien -- Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic / Dudley Andrew -- In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko / Janice Morgan -- Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra / Mary Homer. Reading the Letter in a Postcolonial World / Phebe Shih Chao -- Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography