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The Oriental obscene : violence and racial fantasies in the Vietnam era / Sylvia Shin Huey Chong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey, 1975-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Motion pictures and the war.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Television and the war.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Violence--United States--History--20th century.
- Violence.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the impact of media representations of violence during the Vietnam War on people in the U.S., specifically how images of violence done to and by the Vietnamese were traumatic in ways that deeply affected the American psyche.
- Contents:
- Introduction : specters of Vietnam
- Bringing the war home : spectacles of violence and rebellion in the American 1968
- Reporting the war : ethical crises of action in the movement-image of Vietnam
- Restaging the war : fantasizing defeat in Hollywood's Vietnam
- Kung Fu fighting : pacifying and mastering the martial body
- Being Bruce Lee : death and the limits of the movement-image of martial arts
- Conclusion : returning to 'Nam : the Vietnam veteran's orientalized body.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613333902
- 9780822393405
- 0822393409
- 9781283333900
- 1283333902
- OCLC:
- 1143285740
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