Serial Crime, Serious Threats? Replicating the ‘Yellow Peril’ in British Popular Crime Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21779395 |
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| Authors | Marilena Parlati (0000-0002-7668-9874, University of Padua, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ocula (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1724-7810 • E-ISSN: 1724-7810 |
| Publisher | BraDypUS (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.12977/ocula2020-12 |
| OpenAlex | W3016538134 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
From 1912 and for numerous decades, Sax Rohmer contributed to create, and recreate, an archvillain of tremendous vigour, Fu Manchu, whose routing lives, appallingly magnetic powers, subterranean connections made him a global star. In this paper I peruse this multi-faceted serial icon, formulaic and yet also changing over time, and see its presence and apparent disappearance from the cultural panorama of the Anglophone world. This multimedial serial figure has been let loose, like Frankenstein's creature, and its progeny may still be detected in film, cartoons and global popular culture
Art · Computer security · Criminology · Literature · Political science · Popular fiction · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History
| Highly cited | No |
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