Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)
Lauren the Gothic Bookworm opens the tomb of maybe-classic The Mummy from 1999 as we discuss action movie tropes, Orientalism in Hollywood, the golden age of Egyptology in the popular imagination, and Arnold Vosloo. Digressions include:
-The horror-centric directions the film almost went in
-The lure of the ‘golden age of Egyptology’ in Western storytelling
-Creative use of dodgy CGI
-The mummy as an Indiana Jones clone, and Orientalism in lost race fiction
-Inconsistent geography in the movie
LINKS
-the gothic bookworm on Twitter
-Mummy Mania Mondays on Twitter
-The Anatomy Shelf on Twitter
-International Society For The Study of Egyptomania
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