From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda
Images of China in American Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19972744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naomi Greene (0000-0003-4045-7817, corresponding author), Sheldon H Lu (0000-0001-7336-1649) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838355.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4235332959 |
| Open Library | OL28800683M |
| ISBN | 9780824838355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith’s silent classic Broken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the computer-animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), this book explores China’s changing role in the American imagination as seen in American films. It analyzes a series of influential films that suggest the welter of intense and conflicting impulses that have surrounded China and make clear that China has often served as the very embodiment of “otherness.” In the United States, the emotional charge that imbues images of China has tended to swing violently from positive to negative and back again. Using film to trace these dramatic fluctuations, the book relates them to the larger arc of historical and political change. Suggesting that filmic images both reflect and fuel broader social and cultural impulses, it argues that they reveal a constant tension or dialectic between the “self” and the “other.” Significantly, with the important exception of films made by Chinese or Chinese American directors, the Chinese other is almost invariably portrayed in terms of the American self. Placed in a broader context, this ethnocentrism is related both to an ever-present sense of American exceptionalism and to a Manichean world view that perceives other countries as friends or enemies
Aesthetics · American exceptionalism · Art · China · Chinese americans · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Literature · Political science · Politics · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · In motion pictures · Motion pictures · united states
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |