Romance and the "yellow peril"
Subtitle: race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction
By: Gina Marchetti.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Asians in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures; Love in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Rape fantasy: The Cheat and Broken blossoms; title: The Threat of captivity: The Bitter tea of General Yen and Shanghai express; title: Passport seductions: Lady of the tropics; title: The scream of the butterfly: Madame Butterfly, China gate, and "The Lady from yesterday"; title: White knights in Hong Kong: Love is a many splendored thing and The World of Suzie Wong; title: Tragic and transcendent love: Sayonara and The Crimson kimono; title: Japanese war brides: domesticity and assimilation in Japanese war bride and Bridge to the sun; title: The Return of the butterfly: the geisha masquerade in My geisha and "An American geisha"; title: Conclusion: the postmodern spectacle of race and romance in Year of the dragon.