Daniela Berghahn is Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely in the areas of migrant and diasporic cinema, transnational cinema and post-war German cinema and culture. Her books include Head On (2015), Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema (EUP 2013), European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe (2010) and Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany (2005).

Exoticism is not ‘bad’ by default, nor is it necessarily ‘colonialist’. Daniela Berghahn’s wide-ranging study of contemporary world cinema goes provocatively against the grain, arguing in favour of a ‘decentred’ exoticism that challenges ethnic essentialism, and that is attuned to the ethical complexities of a globalised world.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Locating Exoticism2. Ethnographic Salvage and Cosmopolitan Exoticism3. The Spectacle of Cultural Difference: The Tourist Gaze and the Exotic Gaze4. "The Past Is a Foreign Country": Nostalgia and Exoticism5. Exotic AppetitesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Daniela Berghahn is Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely in the areas of migrant and diasporic cinema, transnational cinema and post-war German cinema and culture. Her books include Head On (2015), Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema (EUP 2013), European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe (2010) and Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany (2005).

Exoticism is not ‘bad’ by default, nor is it necessarily ‘colonialist’. Daniela Berghahn’s wide-ranging study of contemporary world cinema goes provocatively against the grain, arguing in favour of a ‘decentred’ exoticism that challenges ethnic essentialism, and that is attuned to the ethical complexities of a globalised world.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Locating Exoticism2. Ethnographic Salvage and Cosmopolitan Exoticism3. The Spectacle of Cultural Difference: The Tourist Gaze and the Exotic Gaze4. "The Past Is a Foreign Country": Nostalgia and Exoticism5. Exotic AppetitesFilmographyBibliographyIndex