Racial stigma on the Hollywood screen from World War II to the present : the Orientalist buddy film / Brian Locke.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Locke, Brian, 1964-
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Three's a crowd: Crash (2005)
  • 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
  • The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal weapon (1987-1998), Rising sun (1993)
  • The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers": Blade runner (1982, 1992, and 2007)
  • "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto": The matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian
  • Epilogue: Pearl Harbor eclipsed?: The last samurai (2003).