The Oriental Obscene : Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era /

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This book explores the impact of media representations of violence during the Vietnam War on people in the U.S.-specifically how images of violence done to and by the Vietnamese were traumatic in ways that deeply affected the American psyche.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Vietnamkrieg > Motiv
Fotografie
Nachrichtensendung
Fernsehsendung
War and television.
War and motion pictures.
Violence.
Race relations.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Cinema et guerre.
Violence > United States > History > 20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Television and the war.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Motion pictures and the war.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : specters of Vietnam
  • Bringing the war home : spectacles of violence and rebellion in the American 1968
  • Reporting the war : ethical crises of action in the movement-image of Vietnam
  • Restaging the war : fantasizing defeat in Hollywood's Vietnam
  • Kung Fu fighting : pacifying and mastering the martial body
  • Being Bruce Lee : death and the limits of the movement-image of martial arts
  • Conclusion : returning to 'Nam : the Vietnam veteran's orientalized body.

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