Title: Romance and the "yellow peril" : race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction /
Authors: Marchetti, Gina
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Asians in motion pictures.; Race relations in motion pictures.; Sex in motion pictures.; Love in motion pictures.; Motion pictures United States History
Contents: Introduction -- The Rape fantasy: The Cheat and Broken blossoms -- The Threat of captivity: The Bitter tea of General Yen and Shanghai express -- Passport seductions: Lady of the tropics -- The scream of the butterfly: Madame Butterfly, China gate, and "The Lady from yesterday" -- White knights in Hong Kong: Love is a many splendored thing and The World of Suzie Wong -- Tragic and transcendent love: Sayonara and The Crimson kimono -- Japanese war brides: domesticity and assimilation in Japanese war bride and Bridge to the sun -- The Return of the butterfly: the geisha masquerade in My geisha and "An American geisha" -- Conclusion: the postmodern spectacle of race and romance in Year of the dragon.