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Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from World War II to the present : the Orientalist buddy film

Title
Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from World War II to the present : the Orientalist buddy film / Brian Locke.
Author
Locke, Brian, 1964-
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Description
xii, 208 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction -- Three's a crowd: Crash (2005) -- Strange fruit: Bataan (1943) -- White and black to the brink: China gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the young men (1960) -- The blaxploitation buddy film -- The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal weapon (1987-1998), Rising sun (1993) -- The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers": Blade runner (1982, 1992, and 2007) -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto": The matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian -- Epilogue: Pearl Harbor eclipsed?: The last samurai (2003).
Call Number
Sc D 10-1495
ISBN
  • 9780230618824 (alk. paper)
  • 0230618820 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009010765
OCLC
316829436
Author
Locke, Brian, 1964-
Title
Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from World War II to the present : the Orientalist buddy film / Brian Locke.
Imprint
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and indexes.
Research Call Number
Sc D 10-1495
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