China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

by Jeffrey Richards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135021213X
• ISBN13: 9781350212138
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"