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- Title
Crossing America’s Borders: Chinese Immigrants in the Southwesterns of the 1920s and 1930s.
- Authors
GATES, PHILIPPA
- Abstract
The article analyzes several Southwestern-genre films made in the U.S. between the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the depiction of Chinese immigrants. It looks at films with plots based on smuggling humans in to the U.S. and discusses how Chinese people were presented as a threat to national borders. Films examined include "Sky High," "On the Border," and "Hair-Trigger Casey."
- Subjects
UNITED States; IMMIGRANTS in motion pictures; HUMAN trafficking in motion pictures; CHINESE people; SKY High (Film); ON the Border (Film); XENOPHOBIA; SOCIAL history; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Film & Video, 2017, Vol 69, Issue 4, p3
- ISSN
0742-4671
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.5406/jfilmvideo.69.4.0003