Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film

by Karla Rae Fuller

In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some--like Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan--are still familiar today. In Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, Karla Rae Fuller tracks specific cosmetic devices, physical gestures, dramatic cues, and narrative conventions to argue that representations of Oriental identity by Caucasian actors in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334679
• ISBN13: 9780814334676
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"