Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation - Softcover

Hamamoto, Darrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816623694 ISBN 13: 9780816623693

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1994

Synopsis

The first major study of Asian American representation on U.S. television.

Early in the movement of Asian labor to the United States, immigrants from the Far East were viewed by the dominant Euro-American society as a peril to a white, Christian nation. How far have we come since then? This first comprehensive study of Asian American representation on network television supplies some unsettling answers.

A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, Monitored Peril illuminates the unstable relationship between the discursive practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness of racialized discourse throughout U.S. society, especially as it is reproduced by network television.

In treating his topic, Darrell Hamamoto addresses a wide variety of issues facing diverse Asian American communities: interracial conflict, conservative politics, U.S.-Japan trade friction, and postcolonial Vietnam. Through an examination of selected programs from the 1950s to the present, he attempts to correct the consistently distorted optic of network television. Finally, he calls for an engaged independent Asian American media practice, and for the expansion of public sector television.

Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1995

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320 pages 6 x 9

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Contents

Preface

1. White Christian Nation

2. Asians in the American West

3. War against Japanese America

4. Asian Americans and U.S. Empire

5. Southeast Asian America

6. Contemporary Asian America

7. Counterprogramming

Epilogue

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About this title

About the Author

Darrell Y. Hamamoto is a lecturer in the program of comparative culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology (1991).

From the Back Cover

A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, Monitored Peril illuminates the unstable relationship between the practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness of racialized discourse throughout U.S. society, especially as it is reproduced by network television.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816623694
• ISBN 13: 9780816623693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326