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Hollywood Goes Oriental: Caucasian Performance in American Film
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An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.
In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some—like Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan—are still familiar today. In Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, Karla Rae Fuller tracks specific cosmetic devices, physical gestures, dramatic cues, and narrative conventions to argue that representat...