"Elsewhere" in American Cinema

Julie Assouly is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d’Artois, France. Her research focuses on American contemporary auteur cinema (the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson), the representation of the working class, and issues of intermediality and interculturality. She is the author of Wes Anderson, cinéaste transatlantique (2024) and the co-editor (with Marianne Kac-Vergne) of From the Margins to the Mainstream (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).Esther Heboyan is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of Artois in Arras, France. She is a writer and journalist, and her publications on cinema include Les Variations Jarmusch (2017) and San Francisco mis en scenes (2018).

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of Contributors Introduction – “Elsewhere in US Cinema, an Intercultural, Interdisciplinary and Highly Political Subject”- Julie Assouly (Associate professor, University of Artois, France)Part I - US HEGEMONY, ELSEWHERE AS A CONFLICT ZONE AND GEOPOLITICAL ‘NEW FRONTIERS’1- Milan Hain (Associate professor, Palacký University, Czech Republic) – “When Hollywood Cared: The Representation of Czechoslovakia in Hollywood Cinema of World War II”2- Julie Assouly (Associate professor, University of Artois, France) – “Manifest Destiny Beyond Borders, from the American West to the Middle East”3- Antoine Gaudin (Associate professor, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) – “From the War Reporter to the Traveler-Entrepreneur. Evolutions of the American protagonist in Films About Countries at War (1980 – 2020)” 4- Sara El Majhad (Lecturer, University of Aix-Marseille, France) – “A Terrorist Nation: Gaddafi’s Libya on American Screens” 5- Costanza Salvi (Lecturer, University of Zaragoza, Spain) – “John Ford’s Mexico: The Fugitive (1947)” Part II - MUSICAL ELSEWHERES 6- W. Anthony Sheppard (Marylin and Arthur Levitt Professor of Music, Williams College, Mass.)– “Compelled by the Primitive in Cinematic Dance” 7- Mikaël Toulza (Associate Professor, University of Lille) – “To the Rhythm of the Drums: Rada Drums and Territorialized Exotic Images in Voodoo Zombi Films” 8- Esther Heboyan (Emeritus professor, University of Artois, France) – “Late Ottoman Musical Folklore as Marker of Elia Kazan’s Intimate and Violent Elsewhere” Part III - ELSEWHERE THROUGH STEREOTYPICAL MODELS AND COUNTERMODELS9- Abderrahmene Bourenane (Postdoctoral fellow, Le Mans University, France) – “Anti-Orientalism in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005)” 10- Barbora Kaplánková (PhD candidate, Palacký University) – “The Fairy Tale Europe of the American Rom-Com”11- Emmanuel Plasseraud (Professor, Picardie Jules Verne University, France) – “The Action Takes Place in Poland, That Is to Say Nowhere... Dream-like Poland in David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006)” 12- Julie Assouly (Associate professor, University of Artois, France) – “Wes Anderson’s Transatlantic Cinema: Beyond Stereotypical French Culture” Bibliography