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China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan
Jeffrey Richards
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Description for China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan
Hardcover. Where Hollywood and China meet Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants ... Read more
There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784537203
SKU
V9781784537203
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About Jeffrey Richards
Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University. His many publications in cinema & its history include The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema & Society in Britain, 1930-39, Best of British: Cinema and Society, 1930-1970, the British Film Guide to A Night to Remember (all I.B. Tauris), and Mass Observation at the Movies. He is ... Read more
Reviews for China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan
'Jeffrey Richards' latest book is a characteristically wide-ranging, thorough and richly detailed study that sheds new light on both familiar classics and forgotten films. Informative and accessible, China and the Chinese in Popular Film will appeal to specialist and non-specialist readers alike.' - Mark Glancy, Reader in Film History, Queen Mary University of London