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Romance and power in the Hollywood eastern
- Title
- Romance and power in the Hollywood eastern / Nalini Natarajan.
- Author
- Natarajan, Nalini
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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- Description
- xi, 204 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book asserts the existence of the "Eastern" as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the Western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the "Eastern" encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern frontiers of Euro-American expansion. Examining six films in particular--Gunga Din (1939), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Heat and Dust (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Indochine (1992), and The English Patient (1996)--the author explores the duality of the "Eastern" as both assertive and seductive, depicting conquest and romance at the same time. In juxtaposing these two elements, the book seeks to reveal the double process by which the "Eastern" both diminishes the "East" and Global South and reinforces ignorance about these regions' histories and complexity, thereby setting the stage for ever-escalating political aggression.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 21-2201
- ISBN
- 9783030609931
- 3030609936
- OCLC
- 1197814830
- Author
- Natarajan, Nalini, author.
- Title
- Romance and power in the Hollywood eastern / Nalini Natarajan.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783030609948
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-2201