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Envisioning Asia : on location, travel, and the cinematic geography of U.S. orientalism / Jeanette Roan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roan, Jeanette, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asians in motion pictures.
- Culture in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Documentary films--United States--History--20th century.
- Documentary films.
- Asia--In motion pictures.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- "To travel is to possess the world" : the illustrated travel lectures of E. Burton Holmes
- Asia in early American cinema : from street scenes to war stories
- Knowing China : accuracy, authenticity, and The good earth
- At home in the world : occupied Japan and the American century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-87423-3
- 9786612874239
- 0-472-02706-9
- OCLC:
- 671655107
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