Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from WWII to the present
Subtitle: the Orientalist buddy film
By: Brian Locke.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780230618824
Subjects: Minorities in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Asians in motion pictures; Male friendship in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Three's a crowd: Crash (2004); title: Strange fruit: Bataan (1943); title: White and black to the brink: China gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the young men (1960); title: The blaxploitation buddy film; title: The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal weapon (1987-1998), Rising sun (1993); title: The Orientalist buddy film and 'the new niggers': Blade runner (1982, 1992, and 2007); title: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto?: The matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian; title: epilogue: Pearl Harbor eclipsed?: The last samurai.