Roan, Jeanette, 1970-

Envisioning Asia on location, travel, and the cinematic geography of U.S. orientalism / [electronic resource] : Jeanette Roan. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010. - x, 266 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.

"To travel is to possess the world" : the illustrated travel lectures of E. Burton Holmes -- Asia in early American cinema : from street scenes to war stories -- Knowing China : accuracy, authenticity, and The good earth -- At home in the world : occupied Japan and the American century.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Asians in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Documentary films--History--United States--20th century.


Asia--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.A78 / R63 2010

791.43/65851