Philippa Gates

Criminalization/Assimilation

Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589428
• ISBN-10: 0813589428
• Artikelnr.: 55318040

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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