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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785687603321

Autore

Park Jane Chi Hyun

Titolo

Yellow future [[electronic resource] ] : oriental style in Hollywood cinema / / Jane Chi Hyun Park

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7525-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/652995

Soggetti

Asian Americans in motion pictures

Asians in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

Asia In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Style, Visibility, Future; 2. An Oriental Past; 3. American Anxiety and the Oriental City; 4. Oriental Buddies and the Disruption of Whiteness; 5. Martial Arts as Oriental Style; 6. The Virtual Orient; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Yellow Future examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980's, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with technology to produce a collective fantasy of East Asia as the future. Jane Chi Hyun Park demonstrates how this fantasy is sustained through imagery, iconography, and performance that conflate East Asia with technology, constituting what Park calls oriental style. Park provides a genealogy of oriental style through contextualized readings of popular films-from the multicultural city in Blade Runner...