On Sun, 28 May 1995, David Desser wrote: > Missy Price may have been thinking of THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (Frank > Capra, 1933). Sexual tension/attraction/romance betwen "white" and Asian > was a popular motif of films SINCE THE SILENT ERA. DeMille's THE CHEAT > (1915) is certainly the most famous, along with Griffith's BROKEN BLOSSOMS > (1919). On this issue see Gina Marchetti, ROMANCE AND THE 'YELLOW PERIL' > and various essays, including mine, in, Lester Friedman, ed., UNSPEAKABLE > IMAGES. Yes I was thinking of the Capra film... and from what I remember from his autobiography the film did ok in the States but failed in Britain where the populace was more offended that a white woman would be attracted to an Asian man. -------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Lee Price (Dr. Missy) | [log in to unmask] Dept. Jour/Telecom, Northwestern State University of Louisiana I can't be a WASP, I'm Welsh. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]