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Romance and the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction

Romance and the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction

Marchetti, Gina

Paperback

Film StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0520084950
ISBN13: 9780520084957
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 15 1994
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in American cinema.

The author begins with a discussion of D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, then considers later films such as Shanghai Express, Madame Butterfly, and the recurring geisha movies. She also includes some fascinating forgotten films that have been overlooked by critics until now.

Marchetti brings the theoretical perspective of recent writing on race, ethnicity, and gender to her analyses of film and television and argues persuasively that these media help to perpetuate social and racial inequality in America. Noting how social norms and taboos have been simultaneously set and broken by Hollywood filmmakers, she discusses the orientalist tensions underlying the construction of American cultural identity. Her book will be certain to interest readers in film, Asian, women's, and cultural studies.

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