Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction - Matthew Bernstein
Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema - Ella Shohat
PART ONE HISTORICAL AND GENERIC CONTEXTS
The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania - Antonia Lant
Out-Salomeing Salome'': Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism - Gaylyn Studlar The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole - Andrienne L. McLean The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine - Marina Heung A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Aladdin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East - Alan Nadel PART TWO NATIONAL CINEMAS TheCinema colonial'' of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice - Charles O'Brien
Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic - Dudley Andrew
In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko - Janice Morgon
Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra - Mary Hamer
Reading The Letter in a Postcolonial World - Phebe Shih Chao
Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index