Visualizing orientalness : Chinese immigration and race in U.S. motion pictures, 1910s-1930s / von Björn A. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Björn A., author.

Series:

Kölner historische Abhandlungen ; Bd. 53.

Kölner historische Abhandlungen, 0454-1316 ; Band 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese in motion pictures.

Race in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Chinese Americans--Social conditions.

United States.

History.

Chinese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Chinese Americans.

Physical Description:

399 pages : 66 illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Chinese immigration and race in U.S. motion pictures, 1910s-1930s

Place of Publication:

Köln : Böhlau Verlag, 2017.

Summary:

In the early twentieth century Hollywood was fascinated by the ?Far East?. Chinese immigrants, however, were excluded since 1882 and racism pervaded U.S. society. When motion pictures became the most popular form of entertainment, immigration and race were heavily debated topics. 'Visualizing Orientalness' is the first book that analyses the significance of motion pictures within these discourses.0Taking up approaches from the fields of visual culture studies and visual history, Björn A. Schmidt undertakes a visual discourse analysis of films from the 1910s to 1930s. The author shows how the visuality of films and the historical discourses and practices that surrounded them portrayed Chinese immigration and contributed to notions of Chinese Americans as a foreign and other race.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-386), filmography (page 353) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783412505325

3412505323

OCLC:

968686567

Publisher Number:

9783412505325