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Monitored Peril
Darrell Hamamoto
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
The first major study of Asian American representation on U.S. television.
Early in the movement of Asian labor to the United States, immigrants from the Far East were viewed by the dominant Euro-American society as a peril to a white, Christian nation. How far have we come since then? This first comprehensive study of Asian American representation on network television supplies some unsettling answers.
A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, Monitored Peril illuminates the unstable relationship between the discursive practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness ... Read moreIn treating his topic, Darrell Hamamoto addresses a wide variety of issues facing diverse Asian American communities: interracial conflict, conservative politics, U.S.-Japan trade friction, and postcolonial Vietnam. Through an examination of selected programs from the 1950s to the present, he attempts to correct the consistently distorted optic of network television. Finally, he calls for an engaged independent Asian American media practice, and for the expansion of public sector television. Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1995ISBN 0-8166-2368-6 cloth$49.95xISBN 0-8166-2369-4 paper$18.95320 pages 6 x 9AugustContentsPreface1.White Christian Nation2.Asians in the American West3.War against Japanese America4.Asian Americans and U.S. Empire5.Southeast Asian America6.Contemporary Asian America7.CounterprogrammingEpilogueRelated BacklistThe Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film CultureRosa Linda FregosoExplores Chicana and Chicano popular culture in Hollywood commercial and independent cinema. (1993) Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816623693
SKU
V9780816623693
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About Darrell Hamamoto
Darrell Y. Hamamoto is a lecturer in the program of comparative culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology (1991).
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