Abstract: Gender and culture of empire - toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema. Part 1 Historical and generic contexts: 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 - Aladdin, atomic power, and the Muslim Middle East, Alan Nadel. Part 2 National cinemas: 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 Hamer reading The Letter in a postcolonial world, Phebe Shih Chao.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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