{"product_id":"yellow-future-oriental-style-in-hollywood-cinema-paperback","title":"Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Chi Hyun Park\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYellow Future\u003c\/i\u003e examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980s, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with technology to produce a collective fantasy of East Asia as the future. Jane Chi Hyun Park demonstrates how this fantasy is sustained through imagery, iconography, and performance that conflate East Asia with technology, constituting what Park calls oriental style. \u003cbr\u003e Park provides a genealogy of oriental style through contextualized readings of popular films-from the multicultural city in \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e and the Japanese American mentor in \u003ci\u003eThe Karate Kid\u003c\/i\u003e to the Afro-Asian reworking of the buddy genre in \u003ci\u003eRush Hour\u003c\/i\u003e and the mixed-race hero in \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout these analyses Park shows how references to the Orient have marked important changes in American popular attitudes toward East Asia in the past thirty years, from abjection to celebration, invisibility to hypervisibility.\u003cbr\u003e Unlike other investigations of racial imagery in Hollywood, \u003ci\u003eYellow Future\u003c\/i\u003e centers on how the Asiatic is transformed into and performed as style in the backdrop of these movies and discusses the significance of this conditional visibility for representations of racial difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Chi Hyun Park is lecturer of gender and cultural studies, University of Sydney, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757851181344,"sku":"9780816649808","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bd7e8dbf8b3cafcb9702b66c6447d9f1.webp?v=1780113136","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/yellow-future-oriental-style-in-hollywood-cinema-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}