Criminalization/assimilation - Chinese/americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

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 immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood's responses to social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration, racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact of industry factors including the Production Code and star system on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films, Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important alternatives to Hollywood's yellowface fabrications of Chinese identity and a resistance to Hollywood's Orientalist narratives.

Sommario

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
 

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori	Philippa Gates
Editore	Rutgers University Press
Lingue	Inglese
Formato	Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione	31.03.2019
EAN	9780813589428
ISBN	978-0-8135-8942-8
Pagine	280
Categoria	Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Philippa Gates
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780813589428
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8942-8
• Pagine: 280
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto