Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
Contents:
Foreword : constructing the alien in Hollywood's classical era / Tom Gunning -- Introduction : East Meets West : performing the oriental -- Figures of the imagination : Hollywood's oriental -- Masters of the macabre : the oriental detective -- Creatures of evil : the wartime enemy -- Comics and lovers : postwar transitions and interpretations -- Conclusion : the fading oriental guise?
Series:
Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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