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Romance and the "yellow peril" : race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction
- Title
- Romance and the "yellow peril" : race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction / Gina Marchetti.
- Author
- Marchetti, Gina.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993], ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.A78 M37 1993 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Rape Fantasy: The Cheat and Broken Blossoms -- 3. The Threat of Captivity: The Bitter Tea of General Yen and Shanghai Express -- 4. Passport Seductions: Lady of the Tropics -- 5. The Scream of the Butterfly: Madame Butterfly, China Gate, and "The Lady from Yesterday" -- 6. White Knights in Hong Kong: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and The World of Suzie Wong -- 7. Tragic and Transcendent Love: Sayonara and The Crimson Kimono -- 8. Japanese War Brides: Domesticity and Assimilation in Japanese War Bride and Bridge to the Sun -- 9. The Return of the Butterfly: The Geisha Masquerade in My Geisha and "An American Geisha" -- 10. Conclusion: The Postmodern Spectacle of Race and Romance in Year of the Dragon.
- ISBN
- 0520079744 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520084950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 92010878
- OCLC
- 25712801
- ocm25712801
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries