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Author:

Fuller, Karla Rae, 1958-

Title:

Hollywood goes Oriental : CaucAsian performance in American film / Karla Rae Fuller ; with a foreword by Tom Gunning.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xv, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Asians in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Minorities in the motion picture industry--United States.
Racism--United States--History--20th century.
Motion pictures--United States--History--2oth century.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0814334679 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814334676 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)526812638

LCCN:

2010006422

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)