Hollywood diplomacy : film regulation, foreign relations, and East Asian representations / Hye Seung Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, Hye Seung, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asians in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Censorship.

East Asia--In motion pictures.

East Asia.

United States--Foreign relations--East Asia.

United States.

East Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Hollywood Diplomacy makes the case that, rather than simply reflect the West's cultural fantasies of an imagined 'Orient,' images of East Asian ethnicities (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) have long been contested ideological sites where the commercial interests of Hollywood studios and the political mandates of U.S. foreign policy collide, compete against one another, and often become compromised in the process. Hye Seung Chung highlights the mediating capacity of film regulation, presenting it not as an obstacle to artists' freedom of expression, but rather as an enforcer of institutional protection, a facilitator of international relations, and a contributor to 'political correctness' regarding images of racial minorities and foreign nationals. Drawing on archival evidence and film content analysis, Hollywood Diplomacy redefines external censorship or advisory entities (by the Chinese government, the World War II propaganda agency OWI, and the DoD) as productive contributors pushing for increased cultural authenticity and/or more egalitarian racial/ethnic/national images in Hollywood's Orientalist productions. The book is divided into two parts: the first is 'Diplomatic Representations in Classical Hollywood,' which examines films such as Shanghai Express, The Purple Heart, and Bamboo Prison, and the second is 'The War on Terror, Contemporary Hollywood, and Its Global Discontent,' which examines films such as Die Another Day and The Interview"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Censorship as cultural resistance : the Chinese government's "uplift" of national images in 1930s Hollywood

Justified patricide and (im)properly directed hatred : regulating the representations of Chinese and Japanese in Doolittle Raid films

Beyond the propaganda model : the Pentagon as a technical advisor for brainwashing films of the Cold War era

From Die another day to 'another day' : the anti-007 movement, pan-Asian nationalism, and protests as censorship

The interview as a twenty-first-century great dictator? : rethinking film regulation and foreign relations through the Sony crisis

Conclusion. Chinese censors return to Hollywood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-0159-9

OCLC:

1138875646