Criminalization/Assimilation : : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film / / Philippa Gates.
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 immigratio...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 15 images |
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Table of 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