Drawing on cinema and media studies, art history, American studies,
and postcolonial studies, this innovative book offers a fresh way
of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics. It explores how
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western colonial formations of
vision influenced classical Hollywood film style, and thus provides
a new and unique perspective on the origins of the cinematic gaze.
Classical Hollywood cinema constructs global spaces as an
imaginative dreamworld, subsuming geographical and cultural
differences into utopian fantasy. Yet, this characteristically
Hollywoodian aesthetic has rarely been explored in detail. How are
such representations constructed within film texts? Is this utopian
aesthetic really as uniform and transparent as it appears? What is
its relationship to the United States’ status as an imperial
power? In The American Abroad, Anna Cooper explores how postwar
Hollywood cinema adopted elements of British and French imperial
visual culture, transforming them to suit a new United Statesian
context. Cooper argues that four visual discourses in
particular—the sublime, the ethnographic, the picturesque, and
glamour—became building blocks in the development of a new
American visual language.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic USA
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2022 |
| Authors: |
Ann A Cooper
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5013-1447-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-5013-1447-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781501314476 |
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