Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
Contents:
Foreword : constructing the alien in Hollywood's classical era / Tom Gunning -- Introduction : East Meets West : performing the oriental -- Figures of the imagination : Hollywood's orient/al -- Masters of the macabre : the oriental detective -- Creatures of evil : the wartime enemy -- Comics and lovers : postwar transitions and interpretations -- Conclusion : the fading oriental guise?