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Hollywood Chinese : the Chinese in American feature films /

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Hollywood Chinese presents a lavish, highly illustrated look at Asian Americans in Hollywood films, beginnign with some of the earliest movies shot in America's Chinatowns, followed by a deep dive into Chinese representation and misrepresentation in Hollywood's Golden Era, and ending with...

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Main Author: Dong, Arthur E. (Author)
Other Authors: Hong, James (intervewee.), Haberkamp, Randy (Author of introduction, etc.), Yang, Janet (author of afterword,, colophon, etc.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Angel City Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Chinese in motion pictures.
Asian Americans in motion pictures.
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion pictures.
United States.
History.
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Summary:Hollywood Chinese presents a lavish, highly illustrated look at Asian Americans in Hollywood films, beginnign with some of the earliest movies shot in America's Chinatowns, followed by a deep dive into Chinese representation and misrepresentation in Hollywood's Golden Era, and ending with the remarkable Chinese and Chinese American actors, directors and screenwriters remaking the contempoarary cinematic landscape.
Item Description:Illustrations on endpapers.
"An illustrated companion and expansion of Arthur Dong's documentary film, Hollywood Chinese (DeepFocus Productions, 2007)" --Title page verso.
Physical Description:304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-299) and index.
ISBN:9781626400610
162640061X