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Yellow future : oriental style in Hollywood cinema / / Jane Chi Hyun Park



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Autore: Park Jane Chi Hyun Visualizza persona
Titolo: Yellow future : oriental style in Hollywood cinema / / Jane Chi Hyun Park Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-7525-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817039603321
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