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Jeffrey Richards

China and the Chinese in Popular Film

From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

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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 of The Good Earth and… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-78673-064-0
  • EAN: 9781786730640
  • Produktnummer: 23575369
  • Verlag: I.B.Tauris
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 8'392 KB

Über den Autor


Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lancaster and a leading authority on Victorian popular culture, the Victorian theatre and twentieth century cinema. His study of Henry Irving (Hambledon 2005) was shortlisted for the Theatre History Book Prize. He is a regular reviewer and broadcaster.

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