Screening Difference : How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnic...

by Jaap Van Ginneken

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Screening Difference : How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture, Paperback by Ginneken, Jaap Van, ISBN 0742555844, ISBN-13 9780742555846, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Next time you must endure the latest buddy movie or action feature, while away the time attempting to understand why an actor of Italian descent is cast as a Native American, or why makeup is supposed to turn white actors Chinese. Independent scholar Ginneken has an explanation: Hollywood is so ethnocentric that its products are made entirely for "us," mainstream white people as opposed to "them," anyone else. As a result such gaffs as conflicting ethnicity, cultural insensitivity and a devoted misunderstanding of reality are standard operating procedure. To prove his point Ginneken works through dozens of adventures, Westerns, romantic encounters, spy movies, war movies, religious films and science fiction flicks, locating the anomalies and the reasons for them in each. Particularly telling are pictures subsidized by military organizations, who offer free props and sets but freely censor the product. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Year: 2007
• ISBN: 9780742555846
• Condition: Fine

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