Description: An in-depth exploration of how Hollywood represents the foreign 'elsewhere', from the silent era to the present day, and how this has shaped the way we see the world.
Brief description: Julie Assouly is Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d'Artois, France. Her research themes are American cinema, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, pictorial intertextuality, New Hollywood, Americana and nostalgia. She is series editor of série cinémas and co-editor of La culture italo-américaine à l'écran: Cinéma et télévision (Italian American Culture on Screen: Cinema and Television) (forthcoming).