Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from World War II to the Present The Orientalist Buddy Film

by Locke, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780230618824
• ISBN10: 0230618820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from WWII to the Presentcharts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood's representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alongside an analysis of multiple genres of film, Brian Locke argues that this triangulated rendering of race ameliorates the longstanding historical contradiction between U.S. democratic ideals and white America's persistent domination over blacks.

Author Biography

Brian Locke is Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction-Three's a Crowd: Crash (2005)	p. 1
Strange Fruit: Bataan (1943)	p. 15
White and Black to the Brink: China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960)	p. 37
The Blaxploitation Buddy Film	p. 59
The Orientalist Buddy Film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987-1998), Rising Sun (1993)	p. 75
The Orientalist Buddy Film and the "New Niggers": Blade Runner (1982, 1992, and 2007)	p. 101
"Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto": The Matrix (1999) and the Virtual Asian	p. 129
Epilogue-Pearl Harbor Eclipsed? The Last Samurai (2003)	p. 155
Notes	p. 159
Selected Bibliography	p. 181
Film Index	p. 191
General Index	p. 195
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