Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film

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Hollywood Goes Oriental contemporary approaches to film and television series A complete listing of the books in this series can be found online at wsupress.wayne.edu General Editor Barry Keith Grant Brock University Advisory Editors Robert J. Burgoyne Wayne State University Caren J. Deming University of Arizona Patricia B. Erens School of the Art Institute of Chicago Peter X. Feng University of Delaware Lucy Fischer University of Pittsburgh Frances Gateward Ursinus College Tom Gunning University of Chicago Thomas Leitch University of Delaware Anna McCarthy New York University Walter Metz Southern Illinois University Lisa Parks University of California–Santa Barbara wayne state university press detroit CaucAsian Performance in American Film Karla Rae Fuller With a Foreword by Tom Gunning © 2010 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fuller, Karla Rae, 1958– Hollywood goes Oriental : CaucAsian performance in American film / Karla Rae Fuller ; with a foreword by Tom Gunning. p. cm. — (Contemporary approaches to film and television series) Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8143-3467-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Asians in motion pictures. 2. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. 3. Ethnicity in motion pictures. 4. Minorities in the motion picture industry—United States. 5. Racism—United States—History—20th century. 6. Motion pictures—United States— History—20th century. I. Title. PN1995.9.A78F75 2010 791.43'652995—dc22 2010006422 Typeset by Alpha Design & Composition Composed in Dante MT To my daughter, Kelsie, and my mother, Gladys No one is free until everyone is free. This page intentionally left blank ...