Anthropology and the Motion Picture: readings
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William O’Barr, Duke University
Morton, Walt. "Tracking the Sign of Tarzan: Trans-Media Representations of a Pop-Culture Icon" from You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men, Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim (eds). (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1993). Pp. 106-125. 
Torgovnik, Marianna. "Taking Tarzan Seriously" from her book Gone Primitive (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Creed, Barbara. "Me Jane: You Tarzan! -- A Case of Mistaken Identity in Paradise" from The Australian Journal of Media & Culture (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1987). http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/1.1/Creed.html
Hall, Stuart. "The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media" from Silver Linings: some Strategies for the Eighties, G. Bridges and R. Brunt (eds.). (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1981). Lull, James. "Hegemony" from his Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). Mulvaney, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema," from her The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality (New York: Routledge, 1992). Giroux, Henry A. "Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films" from his book The Mouse that Roared (Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield). Pp. 83-121. Brantley, Susan C. "Out of Africa" from her book Understanding Isak Dinesen (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press). Pp. 72-100, 211-214. Huggan, Isabel. "Skin the Colour of Money," from her You Never Know (New York: Viking, 1993). Achebe, Chinua. "Named for Victoria, Queen of England," New Letters 40(3), 1973. Pp. 190-193 in PCSR. Kincaid, Jamaica. "A Small Place" from her book A Small Place (London: Virago, 1988). Pp. 92-94 of PCSR. Fanon, Frantz. "The Fact of Blackness" from Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968). Pp. 323-326 of PCSR. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. "Literature & Society: The Politics of the Canon," from his Writers in Politics (Oxford: James Currey). Pp. 3-27. Said, Edward W. "Orientalism" from his Orientalism (New York: Random House, 1978). Pp. 87-91 of PCSR. Mishra, Vijay and Bob Hodge. "What is Post(-)colonialism?", Textual Practice 5(3):399-414 (abridged). GRAND TOUR LITERATURE Forster, E. M. "In Santa Croce with No Baedeker" from his Room with a View. Pp. 99-113 in IIM. Lofgren, Orvar. "The Mediterranean in the Age of the Package Tour" from his book On Holiday -- A history of Vacationing. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Pp. 155-219. McCarthy, Mary. "The Loot" from her book Venice Observed. Pp. 202-207 in IIM. Sheppard, Simon. "Vaporetto" in Erotic Travel Tales, Mitzi Szereto, ed. (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2001). Pp. 5-13. Mayes, Frances. "Bramare" from her book Under the Tuscan Sun (New York: Broadway (*Books, 1996). Pp. 5-23. BOORSTIN, DANIEL. COUSINEAU, PHIL. "The Past is a Foreign Country -- A Debate" in Key Debates in Anthropology, Tim Ingold (ed.) (London: Routledge, 1966). Pp. 199-248. Hooks, bell. "Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance." Pp. 342-359 in CSR. Johnson, Patricia. "Advertising Paradise: Hawai'i in Art, Anthropology, and Commercial Photography," in Colonialist Photography, E.M. Hight and G.D. Sampson, eds. (London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 188-225. Balme, Christopher B. “Selling the Bird: The Bird of Paradise and the Dynamics of Theatrical Commodification,” from Theatre Journal 57 (2005) Pp. 1-20. VIA Project Muse. Lewis, G. H. “Beyond the Reef: Cultural Constructions of Hawaii in Mainland America, Australia and Japan,” from Journal of Popular Culture 30(2) (1996), Pp. 123-135. VIA online journal. Subramani, “The Oceanic Imaginary,” from The Contemporary Pacific (2001), Pp. 149-162. 
