Visions of the East

A superb collection of essays which amply demonstrates that multiculturally oriented studies of cinema have come of age. - Virginia Wright Wexman (author of Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance) Challenges the reader to confront the ideological bias buried within Western film-making. Professors Bernstein and Studlar have assembled a significant collection of original essays which utilize broad theoretical concepts to illuminate particular films. The result, an engaging and stimulating book, makes an invaluable contribution to the study of cinema history, theory, and criticism. - Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University) The first major collection of essays on Orientalism in American and European cinema... is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the politics of visual culture. - Susan White (University of Arizona) In Visions of the East, eleven cultural theorists use film as a point of departure for elaborating on Edward SaidÆs initial articulation of orientalism as a regime of knowledge constructed and maintained by Western hegemonies. . . . A superb, much needed, and timely text for anyone interested not only in understanding the historical contexts for such films but also in deconstructing their political and cultural ideologies. (Religious Studies Review)