Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema
By (Author) Jane Chi Hyun Park
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
3rd January 2011
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Ethnic studies
791.430973
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 23mm
Description
Yellow Future 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.
Reviews
"Yellow Futures emphasis on oriental style is interesting and fresh. I can see other scholars in the field picking up this term and running with it, both in their writing and teaching. Jane Chi Hyun Park has written an excellent, useful book." Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Author Bio
Jane Chi Hyun Park is lecturer of gender and cultural studies, University of Sydney, Australia.
