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Screening Difference: How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Hardcover - 2007

by Van Jaap Ginneken


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Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as film versions pretend? That the myth of the sexually eager Hula girls is based on misunderstandings by early explorers? Screening Difference is a fascinating voyage through recent movie blockbusters dealing with encounters between 'us, ' based on white Hollywood, and 'them, ' the representations of other races, ethnicities, and cultures. Looking at orientations in casting, make-up, sets, props, lighting, camera movements, music, and language, this lively book follows the best-known genres, from animated cartoons to romantic movies. Screening Difference tracks the stories to their origins and dissects their hidden message

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  • Title Screening Difference: How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
  • Author Van Jaap Ginneken
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 294
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Date 2007-08-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780742555839 / 0742555836
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.39 x 1.05 in (23.57 x 16.23 x 2.67 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - United States, Race in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007011064
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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  • Choice, 02/01/2008, Page 1166

About the author

Jaap van Ginneken is an independent author and lecturer on psychology, culture, and communication based in France. He has published seventeen books in thirty-two editions and five languages to date. He formerly taught in the area of entertainment studies and public opinion at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam as an associate professor.
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