Steven C. Caton is Professor of Modern Arab Society in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (California, 1990).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Teatro del Lago and After1. "Travelling Circus": The Transnational in Film Production of the 1950's2. Lean's Lens: An Embodiment of Vision3· Riding the Whirlwind: Scripting the Political in the Spectacle4· An Allegory of Anthropology5· An Ami-Imperialist, Orientalist Epic6. MaskulinitiesEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Steven C. Caton is Professor of Modern Arab Society in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (California, 1990).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Teatro del Lago and After1. "Travelling Circus": The Transnational in Film Production of the 1950's2. Lean's Lens: An Embodiment of Vision3· Riding the Whirlwind: Scripting the Political in the Spectacle4· An Allegory of Anthropology5· An Ami-Imperialist, Orientalist Epic6. MaskulinitiesEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Steven C. Caton is Professor of Modern Arab Society in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (California, 1990).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Teatro del Lago and After1. "Travelling Circus": The Transnational in Film Production of the 1950's2. Lean's Lens: An Embodiment of Vision3· Riding the Whirlwind: Scripting the Political in the Spectacle4· An Allegory of Anthropology5· An Ami-Imperialist, Orientalist Epic6. MaskulinitiesEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex