Serial Fu Manchu : The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Ruth.

Series:

Asian American History & Cultu

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans in mass media.

Chinese in literature.

Fu Manchu, Doctor (Fictitious character).

Local Subjects:

Chinese Americans in mass media.

Chinese in literature.

Fu Manchu, Doctor (Fictitious character).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The evil mastermind-and master of disguise-Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven serialized novels, comic books, films, and TV. Yet this sinister Oriental character represents more than an invincible criminal in pop culture; Fu Manchu became the embodiment of the Yellow Peril. Serial Fu Manchu provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu's irrepressibility gives shape to-and reinforces-the persistent Yellow Peril myth. Ruth Mayer argues that seriality is not merely a commercial

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1. Going Serial: Fu Manchu, the Yellow Peril, and the Machinic Momentum of Ideology ""; ""Chapter 2. Enter Fu Manchu: The Transatlantic Preriodical Press and the Circulation of Stories and Things ""; ""Chapter 3. Image Power: Seriality, Iconicity, and the Filmic Fu Manchus of the 1930s""; ""Chapter 4. Machinic Fu Manchu: Popular Seriality and the Logic of Spread ""; ""Chapter 5. Evil Chinamen: Yellow Peril Comics and the Ideological Work of Popular Seriality ""; ""Chapter 6. The End of the Assembly Line: Seriality, Ideology, and Popular Culture ""

""References """"Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781439910573

143991057X

OCLC:

861559374