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Criminalization/Assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film
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Criminalization/Assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film / Philippa Gates.
ISBN
9780813589442
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 p.) : 15 images
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In English.
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Summary
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.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
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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