On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
by
Jeanette Roan
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Whereas some other scholars read selected films mainly to illustrate political arguments, Roan never loses sight of the particularities of film as a distinctive cultural form and practice. Her drive to see 'cinema as a mechanism of American orientalism' results in not just a textual analysis...