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Table of Contents: “…Colonial tropes and postcolonial tricks -- Tropical nature and landscape aesthetics -- Salvaging the savage -- Paradise lost : wilderness and the limits of western escapism -- Jungle fever : degeneration as a trop(olog)ical disease.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The subversive potential of the unlikely couple film -- Pygmalion : the flower girl and the bachelor -- It happened one night : an education in humility -- Pretty woman : a fairy tale of oedipalized capitalism -- White palace : dustbuster epiphanies -- Guess who's coming to dinner : does father really know best? -- Jungle fever : souring on forbidden fruit -- Mississippi masala : love in a postcolonial world -- Ali : fear eats the soul : the privileges of "race" -- Desert hearts : betting on lesbian love -- The crying game : loving in ignorance -- Movie romance and the critique of hierarchy.…”

Table of Contents: “…"Older, wiser, stronger": representation and self-representation : The Long walk home; Daughters of the dust -- Good clean fun: Love in popular film : Thelma and Louise; The Piano -- Bodies, pleasures, and pains : Jungle fever; Paris is burning -- What you see is what you get: religion and values in movies.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Othellophilia -- White devils, black lust: inter-racialism in early modern drama -- The heathen with the heart of gold : Othellophilia comes to America -- Holes at the poles : gothic horror and the racial abject -- Sisters in bondage : abolition, amalgamation, and the crisis of female authorship -- Handsome devils : romance, rape, racism, and the rhet(t)oric of darkness -- Invisible men, unspeakable acts : the spectacle of black male violence in modern American fiction -- Conclusion : "White women are snaky" : jungle fever and its discontents.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Right on, as in right on time / Melvin Van Peebles -- Preface / David Lee -- Five for five / Spike Lee -- She's gotta have it : thoughts on She's gotta have it / Terry McMillan -- School daze : programming with School daze / Toni Cade Bambara -- Do the right thing : Do the right thing : film and fury / Nelson George -- Mo' better blues : one meaning of Mo' better blues / Charles Johnson -- Jungle fever : guess who's not coming to dinner? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr…”

Table of Contents: “…Lane Kauffmann -- Jungle fever: primitivism in environmentalism; Rómulo Gallegos's Canaima and the romance of the jungle / Jorge Marcone -- Primitivism and cultural production: future's memory; native people's voices in Latin American society / Ivete Lara Camargos Walty -- Primitive bodies in Latin American cinema: Nicolás Echevarría's Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo -- Subliminal body: shamanism, ancient theater, and ethnodrama / Gabriel Weisz -- Primitivist construction of identity in the work of Frida Kahlo / Wendy B. …”

Table of Contents: “…Hoffman ; The dialectic of King and X in Do the right thing / Michael Silberstein ; Fevered desires and interracial intimacies in Jungle fever / Ronald R. Sundstrom ; Bamboozled : philosophy through blackface / Dan Flory -- III. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Preparing the Climax: From Jungle Fever to Summit Fever; 6. Goude's Opera: The Marseillaise Revisited; 7. …”
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