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Serial Fu Manchu
Ruth Mayer
其他書名
The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology
出版Temple University Press, 2013
主題Literary Criticism / American / Asian American & Pacific IslanderComics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery
ISBN143991057X9781439910573
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5YR8AQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The evil mastermind-and master of disguise-Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven serialized novels, comic books, films, and TV. Yet this sinister Oriental character represents more than an invincible criminal in pop culture; Fu Manchu became the embodiment of the Yellow Peril. Serial Fu Manchu provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu's irrepressibility gives shape to-and reinforces-the persistent Yellow Peril myth. Ruth Mayer argues that seriality is not merely a commercial stra.