Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film

Too often Hollywood cinema is reduced to a homogenized product. Fuller, while primarily tracing consistencies within the Hollywood product, also traces the heterogeneous nature of Hollywood's output. Thus, she not only chooses Films in which Oriental characters are played by non-Orientals but has discovered Films in which the issues of disguise, masquerade, and even stereotyping are centraluTom Gunning, professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago

Fuller's study of images of Asian Americans in film takes an insightful approach by examining the practice of performances in 'yellowface': white (or in rare cases, black) actors portraying Asian characters. Hollywood Goes Oriental makes a substantial contribution to the literature in Asian American studies.uFrank H. Wu, chancellor and dean at the University of California Hastings College of the Law

Fuller's discussion of cross-ethnic performance in Hollywood Films is long overdue. She adds valuable insights Go Film studies, ethnic studies, and gender studies, while her use of performance theory in the analysis in which ethnicity is viewed as a social construct that is expressed through the bodyupoints to the possibility of new perspectives.-Jenny Lau, professor of cinema at San Francisco State University

Karla Rae Fuller is associate professor' in the Film and video department at Columbia College, Chicago,and the editor of the forthcoming Interviews with Ang Lee.