Includes bibliographical references (p.[315]-318) and index.

Gender and culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema / Ella Shohat -- 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 -- The cinemá 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 Pepé ĺe moko / Janice Morgan -- Timeless histories : a British dream of Cleopatra / Mary Hamer -- Reading The letter in a postcolonial world / Phebe Shih Chao.