The Oriental obscene
Subtitle: violence and racial fantasies in the Vietnam era
By: Sylvia Shin Huey Chong
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780822348405; 9780822348542
Subjects: Motion pictures and the war; Race relations; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Violence; Television and the war; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : specters of Vietnam; title: Bringing the war home : spectacles of violence and rebellion in the American 1968; title: Reporting the war : ethical crises of action in the movement-image of Vietnam; title: Restaging the war : fantasizing defeat in Hollywood's Vietnam; title: Kung Fu fighting : pacifying and mastering the martial body; title: Being Bruce Lee : death and the limits of the movement-image of martial arts; title: Conclusion : returning to 'Nam : the Vietnam veteran's orientalized body.