Otherness in Hollywood Cinema

Michael Richardson is Visiting Fellow (honorary) at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His research interests focus on issues of representation and how they relate to the anthropological relation. He has published widely, having edited a collection of writings of Georges Bataille on surrealism (The Absence of Myth, Verso, 1991) and surrealism and the Caribbean (Refusal of the Shadow, Verso 1996), as well as writing the single authored books George Bataille (Routledge, 1994), The Experience of Culture (Sage, 2001) and Surrealism and Cinema (Berg, 2006). From 2004-7, he was Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo.

‘Richardson's book is one for the film studies section of the library in schools, colleges, universities and performing arts training institutions.'

• Introduction: Hollywood Cinema and the "Other"; 1. The Other and the Wilderness; 2. The Myth of the Frontier; 3. Chasing Chinese Shadows: The Yellow Peril Reconsidered; 4. The Exotic as Spectacle; 5. Otherness in the Night: Film Noir; 6. Of Monsters and Cold Wars; 7. The Myth of the Zombie; 8. Apocalypse Now on a Borderline of Consciousness; 9. Reconfigurations of the Exotic in Contemporary Cinema; 10. Steven Spielberg and the Sanctification of Difference; 11. Jim Jarmusch, or Communication in Crisis; 12. The Persistence of King Kong; Epilogue; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.