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 immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns.
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 immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns.
PHILIPPA GATES is a professor of film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas.
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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 Imperilled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium Dens 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
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 Imperilled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium Dens 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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