Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
12-2005
Abstract
This article contextualizes issues of race and Orientalism in the career of Japanese actress Tsuru Aoki within changing representational strategies and ongoing cultural struggles over the public and domestic roles of women in the modern age. According to the author, Aoki's persona blurred the boundaries between Japanese and U.S. identities.
DOI
10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-129
Recommended Citation
Ross, Sara. "The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman." Camera Obscura 20:3(60) (2005): 129-158.
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Film and Media Studies Commons, South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies Commons, Women's Studies Commons
