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Lawrence of Arabia
Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and fascinating examination of the classic film, "Lawrence of Arabia." Caton is interested in why this epic film has been so compelling for so many people for more than three decades. In seeking an answer he draws from situations in his ow...more
Paperback, 316 pages
Published
April 13th 1999
by University of California Press
(first published 1999)
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Steven Caton is a great professor because he's a great story teller. He's taken a classic movie and explored it in a way that few would have thought to do. Of particular interest are the correlations he makes to the T.E. Lawrence as proxy for the romanticized image of the Anthropologist and the use of the movie as a dialectical critique of the discipline.
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