Jaap van Ginneken is an independent author and lecturer on psychology, culture, and communication based in France. He has published seventeen books in thirty-two editions and five languages to date. He formerly taught in the area of entertainment studies and public opinion at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam as an associate professor.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1 The Loud and the Silent: Global Film in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 3 2 Children and Adults: Animated CartoonsChapter 4 3 Civilized and Barbarians: Antiquity MoviesChapter 5 4 The Tamers and the Wild: Wilderness AdventureChapter 6 5 The Prolific and the Idle: Westerns and SouthernsChapter 7 6 The Prude and the Lewd: Romantic and Erotic EncountersChapter 8 7 Helpers and Helpless: Colonial AdventureChapter 9 8 Friends and Foes: Spy, Action, and War MoviesChapter 10 9 Believers and Heathen: Religious FilmsChapter 11 10 The Advanced and the Backward: Science Fiction and Space AdventureChapter 12 11 Other People's DreamsChapter 13 GlossaryChapter 14 References

Screening Difference combines sociological, cultural, and cinema savvy to provide a penetrating treatment of ethnocentrism in recent Hollywood mega projects. Telling details make it an enjoyable read. The author is a distinguished psychologist of mass communication.

Jaap van Ginneken is an independent author and lecturer on psychology, culture, and communication based in France. He has published seventeen books in thirty-two editions and five languages to date. He formerly taught in the area of entertainment studies and public opinion at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam as an associate professor.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1 The Loud and the Silent: Global Film in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 3 2 Children and Adults: Animated CartoonsChapter 4 3 Civilized and Barbarians: Antiquity MoviesChapter 5 4 The Tamers and the Wild: Wilderness AdventureChapter 6 5 The Prolific and the Idle: Westerns and SouthernsChapter 7 6 The Prude and the Lewd: Romantic and Erotic EncountersChapter 8 7 Helpers and Helpless: Colonial AdventureChapter 9 8 Friends and Foes: Spy, Action, and War MoviesChapter 10 9 Believers and Heathen: Religious FilmsChapter 11 10 The Advanced and the Backward: Science Fiction and Space AdventureChapter 12 11 Other People's DreamsChapter 13 GlossaryChapter 14 References

Screening Difference combines sociological, cultural, and cinema savvy to provide a penetrating treatment of ethnocentrism in recent Hollywood mega projects. Telling details make it an enjoyable read. The author is a distinguished psychologist of mass communication.

Jaap van Ginneken is an independent author and lecturer on psychology, culture, and communication based in France. He has published seventeen books in thirty-two editions and five languages to date. He formerly taught in the area of entertainment studies and public opinion at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam as an associate professor.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1 The Loud and the Silent: Global Film in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 3 2 Children and Adults: Animated CartoonsChapter 4 3 Civilized and Barbarians: Antiquity MoviesChapter 5 4 The Tamers and the Wild: Wilderness AdventureChapter 6 5 The Prolific and the Idle: Westerns and SouthernsChapter 7 6 The Prude and the Lewd: Romantic and Erotic EncountersChapter 8 7 Helpers and Helpless: Colonial AdventureChapter 9 8 Friends and Foes: Spy, Action, and War MoviesChapter 10 9 Believers and Heathen: Religious FilmsChapter 11 10 The Advanced and the Backward: Science Fiction and Space AdventureChapter 12 11 Other People's DreamsChapter 13 GlossaryChapter 14 References

Screening Difference combines sociological, cultural, and cinema savvy to provide a penetrating treatment of ethnocentrism in recent Hollywood mega projects. Telling details make it an enjoyable read. The author is a distinguished psychologist of mass communication.