Criminalization/assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in classical Hollywood film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gates, Philippa, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Chinatowns in motion pictures. Chinese Americans in motion pictures. Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. Motion pictures. United States. 1900-1999 History.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Hollywood's Chinese America
Yellow peril, protest, and an orientalist gaze: Hollywood's constructions of Chinese/Americans
Part II. Chinatown crime
Imperilled imperialism: Tong wars, slave girls, and opium
The whitening of Chinatown: action cops and upstanding criminals
Part III. Chinatown melodrama
The perils of proximity: white downfall in the Chinatown melodrama
Tainted blood: white fears of yellow miscegenation
Part IV. Chinese American assimilation
Assimilation and tourism: Chinese American citizens and Chinatown rebranded
Assimilating heroism: the Chinese American as American action hero.