Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from World War II to the present: The Orientalist Buddy Film

This book charts the evolution, from the World War II period to the present day, of racial relationships and their repercussions in Hollywood films and examines a neglected sub-genre. INDICE: - Introduction: Two's Company: Flash Gordon (1980) and Lethal Weapon (1987, 1989, 1992, 1998) - Strange Fruit: Bataan (1943) - White and Black to the Brink: China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960) - The Blaxploitation Buddy Film: Three the Hard Way (1974), Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), Brotherhood of Death (1976) - The Orientalist Buddy Film and the 'New Niggers': Blade Runner (1982, 1992, 2007) - Ghosts of Los Angeles: Rising Sun (1993) - 'Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto': The Matrix (1999) and the Virtual Asian - Pearl Harbor Eclipsed?: The Last Samurai (2003), Crash(2004)

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61882-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés