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

• Autore: Park Jane Chi Hyun
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/652995
• Soggetto topico: Asian Americans in motion pictures; Asians in motion pictures; Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Asia In motion pictures
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Yellow future
• ISBN: 0-8166-7525-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785687603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II