Sylvia Shin Huey Chong

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348542
• ISBN-10: 0822348543
• Artikelnr.: 34161926

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Shin Huey Chong

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Terminology, Proper Names, and Film Titles ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Specters of Vietnam 1
1. Bringing the War Home: Spectacles of Violence and Rebellion in the
American 1968 33
2. Reporting the War: Ethical Crises of Action in the Movement-Image of
Vietnam 75
3. Restaging the War: Fantasizing Defeat in Hollywood's Vietnam 127
4. Kung Fu Fighting: Pacifying and Mastering the Martial Body 173
5. Being Bruce Lee: Death and the Limits of the Movement-Image of Martial
Arts 209
Conclusion. Returning to 'Nam: The Vietnam Veteran's Orientalized Body 249
Notes 283
Bibliography 325
Index 353