Title: Criminalization/assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in classical Hollywood film /
Authors: Gates, Philippa, 1973-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chinatowns in motion pictures; Chinese Americans in motion pictures; Motion pictures United States History; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Chinese Americans in motion pictures; Chinatowns in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; United States
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.