Criminalization/Assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film /

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Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America's image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America's yellow peril fears about Chinese immigratio...

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Autor principal: Gates, Philippa, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Chinese Americans in motion pictures.
Chinatowns in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > General.
Stereotypes au cinema.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Americains d'origine chinoise au cinema.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • v Contents
  • Part I. Hollywood's Chinese America
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Yellow Peril, Protest, and an Orientalist Gaze: Hollywood's Constructions of Chinese/Americans
  • Part II. Chinatown Crime
  • 3. Imperiled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium
  • 4. The Whitening of Chinatown: Action Cops and Upstanding Criminals
  • Part III. Chinatown Melodrama
  • 5. The Perils of Proximity: White Downfall in the Chinatown Melodrama
  • 6. Tainted Blood: White Fears of Yellow Miscegenation
  • Part IV. Chinese American Assimilation
  • 7. Assimilation and Tourism: Chinese American Citizens and Chinatown Rebranded
  • 8. Assimilating Heroism: The Chinese American as American Action Hero
  • 9. Epilogue
  • Filmography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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