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Author:
Locke, Brian, 1964-
Title:
Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from World War II to the present : the Orientalist buddy film / Brian Locke.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xii, 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Minorities in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Asians in motion pictures.
Male friendship in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction -- Three's a crowd : Crash (2005) -- Strange fruit : Bataan (1943) -- White and black to the brink : China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960) -- The blaxploitation buddy film -- The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s : Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987-1998), Rising Sun (1993) -- The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers" : Blade Runner (1982, 1992, and 2007) -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto" : The Matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian -- Epilogue : Pearl Harbor eclipsed? : The Last Samurai (2003)
ISBN:
0230101674 (e-book)
9780230101678 (e-book)
0230618820 (hardbound)
9780230618824 (hardbound)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)316829436
LCCN:
2009010765
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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