TY - GEN T1 - Criminalization/assimilation : Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in classical Hollywood film A1 - Gates, Philippa, 1973- LA - English PP - New Brunswick PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1100462949 AB - Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America's image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America's yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood's responses to social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration, racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact of industry factors including the Production Code and star system on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films, Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important alternatives to Hollywood's yellowface fabrications of Chinese identity and a resistance to Hollywood's Orientalist narratives. CN - PN1995.9.C475 G38 2019 SN - 0813589444 SN - 9780813589442 SN - 0813589428 SN - 9780813589428 SN - 9780813589411 SN - 081358941X KW - Chinatowns in motion pictures. KW - Chinese Americans in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. KW - Américains d'origine chinoise au cinéma. KW - Cinéma : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Stéréotypes au cinéma. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : General. KW - Chinatowns in motion pictures KW - Chinese Americans in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -