LEADER 02726nam 2200529 450 001 9910792660603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781786720641 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985391 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4772575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4772575 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11319882 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL980049 035 $a(OCoLC)967566839 035 $a(NjHacI)993710000000985391 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985391 100 $a20170110h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aChina and the Chinese in popular film $efrom Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan /$fJeffrey Richards 210 1$aLondon, [England] ;$aNew York :$cI.B.Tauris,$d2017. 210 4$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (192 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCinema and Society Series 311 0 $a1-350-21213-X 311 0 $a1-78453-720-9 311 0 $a9781784537203 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThere's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants of The Good Earth and Dragon Seed fighting against Japanese invasion in wartime tributes to the West's ally, Nationalist China. The cinema's split level response is also traced through the images of the ultimate Oriental villain, the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu and the timeless Chinese hero, the intelligent and benevolent detective Charlie Chan. Filling a longstanding gap in Cinema and Cultural History, the book is founded in fresh research into Hollywood's shifting representations of China and its people. 410 0$aCinema and society. 606 $aChinese in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$xHistory 607 $aChina$xIn motion pictures 615 0$aChinese in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 676 $a791.436552 700 $aRichards$b Jeffrey$0551272 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792660603321 996 $aChina and the Chinese in popular film$93748366 997 $aUNINA