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

by Gina Marchetti

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520084950
• ISBN13: 9780520084957
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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