Introduction : Hollywood cinema and the "Other"
The Other and the wilderness
The myth of the frontier
Chasing Chinese shadows : the Yellow Peril reconsidered
The exotic as spectacle
Otherness in the night : film noir
Of monsters and cold wars
The myth of the zombie
Apocalypse now on a borderline of consciousness
Refigurations of the exotic in contemporary cinema
Steven Spielberg and the sanctification of difference
Jim Jarmusch or communication in crisis
The persistence of King Kong.