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Lawrence of Arabia - A Film's Anthropology (Paperback, New)
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Lawrence of Arabia - A Film's Anthropology (Paperback, New)
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Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge
of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and
fascinating examination of the classic film, Lawrence of Arabia.
Caton is interested in why this epic film has been so compelling
for so many people for more than three decades. In seeking an
answer he draws from situations in his own life, biographies of the
film's key participants, and analyses of issues relating to class,
gender, colonialism, and cultural differences. The result is a
many-prismed book that poses important questions of ethnographic
representation and the discourse of power. Caton's approach is
dialectical, and his readings of the film are situated within
different historical periods, from the early 1960s to the present.
Among the subjects he highlights are travel and colonialism in
fieldwork and filmmaking, orientalism in the representation of the
Other, and the film's ambiguous handling of masculinity and
homosexuality. Caton looks at his own reactions to the film at
various stages in his life and offers a thought-provoking account
of the film's reception by today's high school and college
students.
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