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Hollywood goes Oriental : CaucAsian performance in American film / Karla Rae Fuller ; with a foreword by Tom Gunning.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.A78 F75 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuller, Karla Rae, 1958-
- Series:
- Contemporary approaches to film and television series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asians in motion pictures.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
- Ethnicity in motion pictures.
- Minorities in the motion picture industry--United States.
- Minorities in the motion picture industry.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- United States.
- History.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2010]
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- ISBN:
- 9780814334676
- 0814334679
- OCLC:
- 526812638
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