Yellow future : oriental style in Hollywood cinema / Jane Chi Hyun Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Jane Chi Hyun.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in motion pictures.

Asians in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Asia--In motion pictures.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yellow Future examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980's, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with technology to produce a collective fantasy of East Asia as the future. Jane Chi Hyun Park demonstrates how this fantasy is sustained through imagery, iconography, and performance that conflate East Asia with technology, constituting what Park calls oriental style. Park provides a genealogy of oriental style through contextualized readings of popular films-from the multicultural city in Blade Runner...

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Style, Visibility, Future; 2. An Oriental Past; 3. American Anxiety and the Oriental City; 4. Oriental Buddies and the Disruption of Whiteness; 5. Martial Arts as Oriental Style; 6. The Virtual Orient; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7525-2

OCLC:

698111712