Romance and power in the Hollywood eastern

by Natarajan, Nalini

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Title Statements

Full title :Romance and power in the Hollywood eastern / Nalini Natarajan.

Summary

This book asserts the existence of the "Eastern" as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the Western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the "Eastern" encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern frontiers of Euro-American expansion. Examining six films in particular--Gunga Din (1939), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Heat and Dust (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Indochine (1992), and The English Patient (1996)--the author explores the duality of the "Eastern" as both assertive and seductive, depicting conquest and romance at the same time. In juxtaposing these two elements, the book seeks to reveal the double process by which the "Eastern" both diminishes the "East" and Global South and reinforces ignorance about these regions' histories and complexity, thereby setting the stage for ever-escalating political aggression.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 204 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030609931, 3030609936
oclc:on1197814830
LC Classification:PN1993.5.A1
Dewey Decimal:791.436585

Subjects

Asians in motion pictures Asiatiques au cinéma Cinéma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Films d'amour -- Histoire -- 20e siècle History Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History -- 20th cent… Romance films Romance films -- History -- 20th century