{"product_id":"yellow-future-jane-chi-hyun-park-9780816649808","title":"Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema","description":"\u003ci\u003eYellow Future\u003c\/i\u003e examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980s, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with technology to produce a collective fantasy of East Asia as the future. Jane Chi Hyun Park demonstrates how this fantasy is sustained through imagery, iconography, and performance that conflate East Asia with technology, constituting what Park calls oriental style.\u003cbr\u003ePark provides a genealogy of oriental style through contextualized readings of popular films-from the multicultural city in \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner \u003c\/i\u003eand the Japanese American mentor in \u003ci\u003eThe Karate Kid\u003c\/i\u003e to the Afro-Asian reworking of the buddy genre in \u003ci\u003eRush Hour \u003c\/i\u003eand the mixed-race hero in \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout these analyses Park shows how references to the Orient have marked important changes in American popular attitudes toward East Asia in the past thirty years, from abjection to celebration, invisibility to hypervisibility.\u003cbr\u003e Unlike other investigations of racial imagery in Hollywood, \u003ci\u003eYellow Future \u003c\/i\u003ecenters on how the Asiatic is transformed into and performed as style in the backdrop of these movies and discusses the significance of this conditional visibility for representations of racial difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Chi Hyun Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816649804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816649808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 250","brand":"Jane Chi Hyun Park","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947331846399,"sku":"9780816649808","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_43ec3fde-4a7b-41ba-8c1d-0304616908b6.jpg?v=1681518091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yellow-future-jane-chi-hyun-park-9780816649808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}