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Hollywood goes Oriental : CaucAsian performance in American film / Karla Rae Fuller ; with a foreword by Tom Gunning.

Title
Hollywood goes Oriental : CaucAsian performance in American film / Karla Rae Fuller ; with a foreword by Tom Gunning.
Author
Fuller, Karla Rae, 1958-
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2010.

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Details

Description
xv, 288 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Uniform Title
  • Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
  • Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Asians in motion pictures
  • Ethnicity in motion pictures
  • Minorities in the motion picture industry > United States
  • Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
  • Racism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Includes filmography.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword : constructing the alien in Hollywood's classical era / Tom Gunning -- Introduction : East Meets West : performing the oriental -- Figures of the imagination : Hollywood's oriental -- Masters of the macabre : the oriental detective -- Creatures of evil : the wartime enemy -- Comics and lovers : postwar transitions and interpretations -- Conclusion : the fading oriental guise?
ISBN
  • 9780814334676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0814334679 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010006422