From Fu Manchu to Kung fu panda : images of China in American film

From Fu Manchu to Kung fu panda : images of China in American film /

Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith's silent classic Broken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the computer-animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), this book explores China's changing role in the American...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, Naomi, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Critical interventions (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Subjects:
Motion pictures > United States > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
Chinabild
Film
Kina på film, USA.
China > In motion pictures.
China
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • The pendulum swings ... and swings again
  • East meets West: cultural collisions and marks of difference
  • Questions of otherness: from opium pipes to apple pie
  • The Cold War in three acts
  • Kundun: "worse than ghosts"
  • Challenges and continuities
  • Afterword: the darkening mirror.

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