Criminalization/Assimilation

Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

Philippa Gates (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8942-8 (ISBN)

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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 immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns.

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 immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood’s responses to social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration, racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact of industry factors including the Production Code and star system on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films, Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important alternatives to Hollywood’s yellowface fabrications of Chinese identity and a resistance to Hollywood’s Orientalist narratives.

PHILIPPA GATES is a professor of film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas.

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          Imperilled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium Dens

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2019
Zusatzinfo	15 images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-8135-8942-8 / 0813589428
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-8942-8 / 9780813589428
Zustand	Neuware