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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Melissa Phruksachart
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4205088
Published: 01 December 2017
...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly...
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The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era

Yiman Wang
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-159
Published: 01 December 2005
... Review of Film and Video, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context , and Film Quarterly . Wong’s dragon lady costume was condemned by Chinese nationalists and raved about in American publicity writings. The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong’s Yellow Yellowface...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

Xin Peng
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9786986
Published: 01 September 2022
..., 1929) and The Mask of Fu Manchu (dir. Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor, US, 1932), which starred Caucasian actors in yellowface, Daughter of the Dragon features two of the most celebrated stars of Asian descent of the time: the Chinese American flapper Anna May Wong and the Japanese silent-era...
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The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman

Sara Ross
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-129
Published: 01 December 2005
... Wang in “The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong’s Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era” — provides an example of the persistence of this connection. Wong’s Sho-sho possesses a vamplike power to gain control over men that is linked to her exotic...
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New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood

Catherine Russell
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-1
Published: 01 December 2005
... on” the Oriental in a complex game of masquerade. In her revisionist reading, Yiman Wang argues that the fascination of Wong should be understood in terms of a performative strategy of screen pass- ing, with its subversive potential of troping the trope and outdoing the stereotype (of the yellowface...
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