Description: Discussion of international culture and politics in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s to 1960s.
Brief description: Russell Meeuf is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho. He is the author of Rebellious Bodies: Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics and John Wayne's World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties. He is also the co-editor of Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture.
Review Quotes: Traveling from Gidget's Rome to John Wayne's Africa, Projecting the World reminds us that Hollywood's many excursions to foreign lands not only sold America to the world but also staged myriad complex and contradictory encounters with global cultures that were cosmopolitan as well as colonialist, transnational as well as nationalist.--Pamela Robertson Wojcik"author of Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction" (05/18/2017)