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Exotic Cinema : Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film, Hardback Book

Exotic Cinema : Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film Hardback

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A critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemasOffers an original, critical reappraisal of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinemaIncludes eighteen case studies that are embedded in rich contextual detail and discussions of thematically similar filmsBrings exoticism into dialogue with cognate frameworks that conceptualise cross-cultural encounters, including primitivism, Orientalism, cultural translation, cultural appropriation, cosmopolitanism and autoethnography, thereby shifting the terms of the debate into a direction that opens new lines of inquiryAnalyses examples of global art, Indigenous and popular mainstream cinema from East Asia, India, South America, Canada, Australia, Europe and the USComes with a companion website: www.exotic-cinema.orgExotic Cinema is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema.

By critically examining regimes of visuality such as the imperial, the ethnographic and the exotic gaze, which have colonised our minds and ways of looking, Daniela Berghahn makes an important contribution to the urgent agenda of decolonising film studies. Berghahn demonstrates that decentred exoticism's aesthetic versatility and alluring alterity are uniquely relevant for understanding the transnational appeal of world cinema.

She addresses prevalent controversies surrounding exoticism and illustrates that, in contemporary world cinema, it is utilised to draw attention to new ethical and socio-political goals.

Global in scope and transnational in perspective, Exotic Cinema invites students and researchers to reassess this prominent mode of cultural representation.

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