About the Author

Jeanette Roan is Adjunct Professor of Visual Studies at California College of the Arts and author of ""Exotic Explorations: Travels to Asia and the Pacific in Early Cinema"" in Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History.

Reviews

"Whereas some other scholars read selected films mainly to illustrate political arguments, Roan never loses sight of the particularities of film as a distinctive cultural form and practice. Her drive to see 'cinema as a mechanism of American orientalism' results in not just a textual analysis of these films, but also a history of their material production and distribution." - Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota"