Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm‪)‬ The Lost Valley Podcast

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