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Criminalization/Assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film / Philippa Gates.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 15 imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813589411
  • 9780813589442
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/62951073 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C475 G38 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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 21. Jun 2021)