Overview

Looking for the Other employs Hollywood films about colonial or exotic travel, and those by women filmmakers of colour, to argue that 'male' and the 'imperial' gazes are intertwined in complex ways across cultures. Featured films include Birth of a Nation, The Cat People, Home of the Brave, Black Narcissus, Chocolat , and Warrior Marks . Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith, Jacques Tourneur, Michael Powell, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T. Min-ha, and Claire Denis.

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Author:   E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780415910170

ISBN 10:   041591017
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   06 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Backgrounds: Theories of Nation, Psychoanalysis and the Imperial Gaze; Chapter 1 Travel, Travelling Identities and the Look; Chapter 2 Theories of Nation and Hollywood in the Contexts of Gender and Race; Chapter 3 Hollywood, Science and Cinema: The Imperial and the Male Gaze in Classic Film; Chapter 4 Darkness Within: Or, The Dark Continent of Film Noir; Part 2 Travelling Postcolonialists and Women of Color; Chapter 5 Travelling White Theorists: The Case of China; Chapter 6 “;Can One Know the Other?”: The Ambivalence of Postcoloniallsm in Chocolat, Warrior Marksand Mississippi Masala; Chapter 7 “;Speaking Nearby”: Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblageand Shoot for the Contents; Chapter 8 “;Healing Imperialized Eyes”: Independent Women Filmmakers and the Look; Chapter 9 Body Politics: Menopause, Mastectomy and Cosmetic Surgery in Films by Rainer, Tom and Onwurah;

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