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In this eloquent and erudite exploration of an imperial Hollywood that framed and edited images of Europe for domestic consumption, Anna Cooper forensically shows the reader how to follow an untrustworthy tour guide.
In this eloquent and erudite exploration of an imperial Hollywood that framed and edited images of Europe for domestic consumption, Anna Cooper forensically shows the reader how to follow an untrustworthy tour guide.
The American Abroad offers a detailed and complex view of American imperialism using the institution of Hollywood cinema for fostering cultural dominance over Europe. Anna Cooper foregrounds the figure of the tourist to unravel in nuanced detail just how Hollywood’s utopian aesthetics “outrageously” depicts Europe as its Orientalist Other on screen. With rich textual analyses of a specific corpus of Post-War films set in Europe, The American Abroad forms an important contribution to the renewed interest in Transatlantic cinematic encounters.
The American Abroad addresses the complex ideological relationship between the U.S. and Europe through a lively and attentive analysis of postwar Hollywood cinema’s visual strategies. By illuminating the ways that the “dream factory” imagined a Europe that exists primarily for the white traveler, Cooper’s study contributes to a richer understanding of U.S. imperialism and its cinematic narratives.
Anna Cooper is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television, University of Arizona, USA. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick and has worked at the universities of Hertfordshire, Sussex, and California (Santa Cruz). She co-edited Projecting the World: Representing the “Foreign” in Classical Hollywood (2017).
In this eloquent and erudite exploration of an imperial Hollywood that framed and edited images of Europe for domestic consumption, Anna Cooper forensically shows the reader how to follow an untrustworthy tour guide.
The American Abroad offers a detailed and complex view of American imperialism using the institution of Hollywood cinema for fostering cultural dominance over Europe. Anna Cooper foregrounds the figure of the tourist to unravel in nuanced detail just how Hollywood’s utopian aesthetics “outrageously” depicts Europe as its Orientalist Other on screen. With rich textual analyses of a specific corpus of Post-War films set in Europe, The American Abroad forms an important contribution to the renewed interest in Transatlantic cinematic encounters.
The American Abroad addresses the complex ideological relationship between the U.S. and Europe through a lively and attentive analysis of postwar Hollywood cinema’s visual strategies. By illuminating the ways that the “dream factory” imagined a Europe that exists primarily for the white traveler, Cooper’s study contributes to a richer understanding of U.S. imperialism and its cinematic narratives.
Anna Cooper is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television, University of Arizona, USA. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick and has worked at the universities of Hertfordshire, Sussex, and California (Santa Cruz). She co-edited Projecting the World: Representing the “Foreign” in Classical Hollywood (2017).