From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda : : Images of China in American Film / / Naomi Greene; ed. by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu.
Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith's silent classic Broken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the computer-animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), this book explores China's changing role in the American...
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Greene, Naomi, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda : Images of China in American Film / Naomi Greene; ed. by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (288 p.) : 31 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Pendulum Swings . . . And Swings Again -- 2. East Meets West: Cultural Collisions and Marks of Difference -- 3. Questions of Otherness: From Opium Pipes to Apple Pie -- 4. The Cold War in Three Acts -- 5. The World Splits in Two -- 6. Challenges and Continuities -- Afterword: The Darkening Mirror -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith's silent classic Broken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the computer-animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), this book explores China's changing role in the American imagination. Taking viewers into zones that frequently resist logical expression or more orthodox historical investigation, the films suggest the welter of intense and conflicting impulses that have surrounded China. They make clear that China has often served as the very embodiment of "otherness"-a kind of yardstick or cloudy mirror of America itself. It is a mirror that reflects not only how Americans see the racial "other" but also a larger landscape of racial, sexual, and political perceptions that touch on the ways in which the nation envisions itself and its role in the world. In the United States, the exceptional emotional charge that imbues images of China has tended to swing violently from positive to negative and back again: China has been loved and-as is generally the case today-feared. Using film to trace these dramatic fluctuations, author Naomi Greene relates them to the larger arc of historical and political change. Suggesting that filmic images both reflect and fuel broader social and cultural impulses, she argues that they reveal a constant tension or dialectic between the "self" and the "other." Significantly, with the important exception of films made by Chinese or Chinese American directors, the Chinese other is almost invariably portrayed in terms of the American self. Placed in a broader context, this ethnocentrism is related both to an ever-present sense of American exceptionalism and to a Manichean world view that perceives other countries as friends or enemies. Greene analyzes a series of influential films, including classics like Shanghai Express (1932), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), The Good Earth (1936), and Shanghai Gesture (1941); important cold war films such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and The Sand Pebbles (1966); and a range of contemporary films, including Chan is Missing (1982), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Kundun (1997), Mulan (1998), and Shanghai Noon (2000). Her consideration makes clear that while many stereotypes and racist images of the past have been largely banished from the screen, the political, cultural, and social impulses they embodied are still alive and well. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Motion pictures United States History. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-peng, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016 9783110564136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110752366 print 9780824838355 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824838379 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824838379 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824838379/original |
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