Yellow future
Subtitle: oriental style in Hollywood cinema
By: Jane Chi Hyun Park
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780816649792; 9780816649808
Subjects: Motion pictures; In motion pictures; Asian Americans in motion pictures; Asians in motion pictures; History
Description: "Yellow Future examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980s, focusing on the collective fantasy of East Asia as the future. Jane Chi Hyun Park demonstrates how this fantasy is sustained through imagery, iconography, and performance that conflate East Asia with technology, constituting what Park calls oriental style."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Style, visibility, future; title: An oriental past; title: American anxiety and the oriental city; title: Oriental buddies and the disruption of Whiteness; title: Martial arts as oriental style; title: The virtual Orient; title: Afterword.