New in Paperback and Kindle RACIAL STIGMA ON THE HOLLYWOOD SCREEN: THE ORIENTALIST BUDDY FILM Brian Locke Ethnic Studies Department University of Colorado, Boulder “Locke grabs the reader with an intensity that is personal . . . subtle and powerful . . . brilliant . . . 100 percent solid, 0 percent sermonistic.” CHOICE (August 2010) RACIAL STIGMA ON THE HOLLYWOOD SCREEN: THE ORIENTALIST BUDDY FILM analyzes an important way in which the white and black binary so dominant in American racial discourse has influenced the representation of the Asian. The book argues that between WWII and 9/11 Hollywood represented the Asian as foreign or non-American because of the longstanding historical contradiction between US democratic ideals and white America’s persistent domination of blacks. Racial Stigma analyzes the politics of the Orientalist buddy film, a wholly unexamined type of movie that offers a scenario in which two American men, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Via contrast, the movie’s vilification of the Asian emphasizes what the two buddies share, thus dissolving the differences between white and black. Since the buddies bond, among other things, upon the common ground of national status, the Asian menace must be non-American. The book’s six chapters cover a variety of genres: the combat movie, the interracial buddy movie, blaxploitation, the detective film, and science fiction. African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Comparative Race Studies, Film Studies 222 pages Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 978-1-137-02934-8 Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Racial-Stigma-Hollywood-Screen-Orientalist/dp/113702934X/ref=la_B001KMDWKC_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1351376832&sr=1-2 Desk and Exam Copies http://us.macmillan.com/racialstigmaonthehollywoodscreen/BrianLocke Thanks and apologies for cross-posting -- Brian Locke http://colorado.academia.edu/BrianLocke ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org