By Michael Richardson
Hollywood used to be from the start teeming with those that had skilled cultural displacement. Coaxing the best abilities from around the globe and wanting to supply motion pictures with a nearly common allure, Hollywood confounded American insularity whereas concurrently proposing a imaginative and prescient of ‘America' to the world.
The e-book examines a number of genres from the viewpoint of otherness, together with the Western, movie noir, and zombie videos. movies mentioned comprise Birth of a Nation, The New World, The Searchers, King Kong, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Jaws, and Dead Man. Erudite and hugely educated, it is a sweeping survey of the way the yankee movie has portrayed the international and the unique.
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The way of life of the native peoples was like nothing that could have been known by the incoming Europeans, to the extent that it could barely be conceptualized by them. Unlike the Spanish Conquistadors, who encountered in Mexico and Peru peoples whose customs may have appeared barbaric to them but whose actual mode of existence was not so very different to that known by Europeans of the time, the North Americans came across peoples who followed ways of life that, if they had ever existed in Europe, had been abandoned millennia before, leaving little trace in the consciousness of contemporary peoples.
The Western certainly constructed a stereotype of the Indian which no doubt had little in common with the self-perception of the Native peoples themselves, but it was a stereotype that was actually quite nuanced, even if it has largely been retained in our collective consciousness as a crude image of savages attacking wagon trains and creating mayhem. The latter image certainly existed, but there were many examples in which the Indians were treated sympathetically, even with a degree of understanding by which their cultural difference was respected (even if only in superficial terms).
Chapter 1 THE OTHER AND THE WILDERNESS ‘America’, both as a place and as an idea, was founded in an encounter with what was ‘other’ to itself. All nations, all peoples, have, of course, shaped themselves in contradistinction to what was perceived as different from themselves, but this took a particular form as Europeans forged a new society in North America as a settler community, with people coming from elsewhere to establish themselves in an environment they perceived as being fundamentally alien to them and taking it as their mission to ‘overcome’ even as they marvelled at the richness of what they encountered.