Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction

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Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in American cinema.
The author begins with a discussion of D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, then considers later films such as Shanghai Express, Madame Butterfly, and the recurring geisha movies. She also includes some fascinating "forgotten" films that have been overlooked by critics until now.
Marchetti brings the theoretical perspective of recent writing on race, ethnicity, and gender to her analyses of film and television and argues persuasively that these media help to perpetuate social and racial inequality in America. Noting how social norms and taboos have been simultaneously set and broken by Hollywood filmmakers, she discusses the "orientalist" tensions underlying the construction of American cultural identity. Her book will be certain to interest readers in film, Asian, women's, and cultural studies.

Love in Asian Art and Culture (Asian Art & Culture (Unnumbered).)

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Love in Asian Art and Culture (Asian Art & Culture (Unnumbered).)
Vidya Dehejia , and Arthur M Sackler Gallery Smithsonian I
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Love in Asian Art and Culture (Asian Art and Culture Ser.)

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Love in Asian Art and Culture (Asian Art and Culture Ser.)
Vidya Dehejia
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MYD7N6

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The perfect pocket guide to buying, valuing, and collecting, this new series by international antiques expert Judith Miller launches with Handbags, Metal Toys, Perfume Bottles, and Sixties Style. Each volume includes over 450 items, beautifully photographed-both iconic and novelty items.

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terrific.......2007-03-12

I love this book. I actually saw this in a shop at Logan Airport while waiting for my flight and decided to order it online as soon as I got back home. It's a terrific book if you are looking for inspiration when making your own handbags (I started making felted handbags recently) or if you just happen to like handbags.
Beautiful detailed photos, elegantly presented. Includes ratings by estimated value for collectors.

Perfume Bottles.......2007-01-09

A great book to have on hand as reference. Dimensions of the bottles would have been an advantage.

SOLID METAL TOY REPRESENTATION.......2006-09-12

OK...for some Un-Godly reason Amazon has all four of Judith Miller's Pocket collectible guides from DK books linked together. If you review one of the four, it shows up on all the other three. Very Strange...

Let me make it clear that this review is only for the Metal Toys Book only! Miller is the long-time collectibles and antiques expert and has assembled hundreds of classic tin, cast iron, and die-cast toys for this wonderful book. The book is sectioned by the three distinct types of metal toys I just mentioned beginning with sheet metal or tin toys. Each toy pictured is given a value range based on 1 to 5 stars with 1 star being a range of $10 - $200, and 5 stars being over $2000. Admittedly these are very broad ranges meant to reflect the condition of the item as well as the availability of the items original box and condition as well.

While it's certainly no where near comprehensive, the guide does provide a fair representation of the types, styles, and manufacturers of each of these types of toys and the names are certainly well known to collectors: Dinky, Marx, Cragston, Hubley, Corgi, Tootsie, Schuco, Britains, and Hot Wheels/Mattel. Included are some great early examples of German tin toys such as a fantastic double-decker bus made by Gunthermann that gets a five star value, as well as many great post-WWII toys produced in Japan as factories that formerly made weapons were now being used to make toys. Some other great in toys pictured are the Disney Dipsey car with Donald Duck as the driver made by Marx, and the Nautilus submarine from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" made by Sutcliffe.

The die-cast section features many of the gorgeous Corgi licensed toys like the Beatles Yellow Submarine, Monkeemobile, James Bond cars, and the classic 1960's Batmobile. There are also numerous Hot Wheels "redlines" pictured but while the photography is top-notch, many of the redlines pictured are in very rough condition with lots of scratches and paint nicks. It would have been nice to see some better examples used for the pictures.

One small complaint is that the books is comprised almost entirely of various types of vehicles: cars, airplanes, buses, ships, trucks, wagons, tanks, etc...It was disappointing that things such as the great Japanese tin robots and space toys, and Marx military playsets were not included.

That minor complaint aside, I really enjoyed thumbing through the book and it is a useful tool in recognizing, and evaluation the price of metal toys. Now I just need Amazon to fix their end!

Reviewed by Tim Janson

A Stunning Collection of Handbags.......2006-03-31

"A survey has found that an American woman owns an average of six handbags." ~Judith Miller

Judith Miller has captured handbags in all their intricate beauty. Many of these bags exist in museums and it is very unlikely that we could observe them all in a lifetime. So, this book is invaluable in that regard. Like Judith Miller's book on perfume bottles, this book exceeds expectations.

The bags range in age from Pre-1890s to the 1970s and present day selections. Each chapter contains historical information, unique quotes and full-color pictures showing the most intricate details and evolution of the beloved handbag. Here we find the original mobile phone, a phone that is shaped as a bag that actually can be plugged in to make calls. One can only imagine those surprise long distance charges after a friend stops by for a visit.

Red velvet Turkish bags with gold embroidery and French beaded purses all live happily amongst pages displaying everything from beadwork to precious metals and leather. There are purses shaped like phones, flowers, accordions, boxes, baskets, wicker parasols, birdhouses, birds and adorable toy rabbits. If you have any interest in Vintage clothes, you may rather enjoy reading about the magazine clutch bag.

With over 400 designs to choose from, this is the ultimate handbag book, it could even fit in a handbag. You will be left with a feeling of: "I simply must have that bag on page ____." However, it is probably in a museum and one can only hope a designer finds this book and makes a modern replica. From the playful to the elegant, there is something to enjoy and many memorable handbags are featured in this wonderful book.

~The Rebecca Review

Paris and Perfumes.......2006-03-31

"There is nothing better than remembering specific moments, like the first time you kissed, through a fragrance. I love that feeling of nostalgia a fragrance can conjure." ~Tommy Hilfiger

It took a trip to Paris to make me aware of the exquisite qualities of rare perfume bottles. Since then I've enjoyed dreaming about a collection and this book satisfies my visual longings. This book has everything from Pre-20th Century to the Present day. Judith Miller has collected pictures of over 400 perfume bottles. The five-star rating system is helpful for collectors as it indicates value.

If you are new to collecting or "dreaming" then this book is an excellent starting point for discovery. As a child you may have remembered your mother brining home a silver vinaigrette shaped like a fish after her world travels or perhaps you discovered tiny bottles in a second-hand or vintage store.

Who has not at one time or another owned a Chanel Number 5 bottle? That is also included as are modern perfume bottles by Nina Ricci,. The L'Air du Temps perfume bottle with plastic doves is rated at one star, while the winged bottle has been given two stars.

The most fascinating perfume bottles seem to be from Pre-20th Century where we find tiny Ruby cased glass bottles with a glass perfume casket and even a key. There is a sense of mystery to locked perfume containers. Intricate details on the porcelain perfume bottles display hand-painted care. Enlarged photos also show fine detail. The Art Nouveau section is helpful in this regard. The writing on the bottles could not be seen without an enlarged version.

A few surprises included the teddy bear perfume bottles and the Steuben blue Aurene perfume bottles with oceanic colors and flower-shaped stoppers. There are perfume bottles that look like they are set up on a chess board, a stunning Roger et Gallet Green glass bottle with a silk box and decorative tassle, perfume bottles from Amsterdam shaped like a lute and even humor like the 1980s Head over Heals perfume bottle.

Throughout the pages there are many high interest items and I am left feeling most in love with the item on page 16. The ruby glass, tiny perfume bottle set and key has me completely intrigued.

~The Rebecca Review

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Review for Metal Toys by Judith Miller (seems to be linked
to perfume review automatically....only way to post the review)

If you love to collect toys or want to remember some of the metal toys you played with as a child, this book contains pictures of over 400 collectible toys with star ratings. The prices for these toys range from $10 to $2,000 and beyond.

The collections are divided into main chapters:

Sheet Metal
Cast Iron
Corgi
Dinky
Hot Wheels
Other Diecast

This book does not only feature cars, there are boats, planes, buses, fire engines, cable cars, wind-up carts, penny toys, tractors, submarines and even cruise liners.

~The Rebecca Review

Miller's: Collecting Fashion and Accessories

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Miller's: Collecting Fashion and Accessories
Carol Harris
Manufacturer: Mitchell Beazley
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Binding: Hardcover

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From 1920s flapper dresses to 1940s twinsets, and from 1970s flares to the avant-garde catwalk creations of the 1990s, the multitude of fashions produced throughout the 20th century offers something for everyone. Collecting Fashion & Accessories takes a close look at this increasingly popular area of collecting.

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In the newest entry in the enduring Dragon Ball series, the Strongest Under the Heavens tournament rages on, and already Yamcha has been eliminated. In the battle between the smallest fighters of the Turtle and Crane schools, Kuririn pits his kamehameha against the Dodon-pa blast of Chaozu. Things really heat up when the match between Jackie Chun and Tenshinhan becomes a battle of ideology rather than strength. Dragon Ball is one of the most popular manga in the world, with top-rated shows on the Cartoon Network and Telemundo. This adventure is presented in the original right-to-left Japanese format.

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The Saga Continues.......2003-10-03

A must have for any true Dragonball Z fan. This manga includes the original artwork and continues the amazing story of Dragonball. A must have for an Akira Toriyama fan (author of Dragonball & Dr. Slump) his work continues to inspire Manga and Anime alike all over the world.

i wish for..........2003-08-13

this dragonball rocks in it are some great macthes like goku vs. kuririn, goku vs. tenshinhan, and jackie chun vs. tenshinhan. im really mad at viz comics for ending it right at comic 132 the arms race. but here is whats going on goku is fighting tenshinhan for champion they are both using really cool moves and tenshinhan was a bout to use an extremely powerful move.

Dragon Ball Vol.11.......2003-08-08

This book is totally awesome!!!! In it Goku and Tenshinhan fight to win the world tournament! You should buy it!!!!!!!!!!!

Kickin' things around..........2003-07-30

The manga magazine SHONEN JUMP brings a never-before-seen volume of Dragon Ball to America. This one begins in the midst of the 22nd "Tenkaichi Budokai" fighting tournament. At the start, cool bald-headed Kuririn is fighting the single-haired, doll-like Chaozu. Kuririn defeats him with an unusual method, but you'll have to read the book to find out what it is.
Later, the three-eyed Tenshinhan goes up against the impostor Jackie Chun (no relation to Jackie Chan). After Chun's stunning defeat, the half-monkey main character, Goku, must fight Tenshinhan.
The next fight is surprising. The "two best friends being forced to fight each other" theme is common in manga, but this time around, it's more interesting.
This book combines astounding battle action with a dollop of humor...Not only that, but this is probably the most clean book of the entire Dragon Ball series...DB Volume 11 is an excellent book for anyone who loves manga.

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Good and entertaining but missing ending
If you're like me...
Goku-First Super Saiyan in centuries
SUPER SAIYAN AT LAST!!!!

Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 11

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ASIN: 1569318077

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Goku and Freeza continue their showdown to see who's the strongest in the universe. But Goku's determination turns to horror when he realizes that the much stronger Freeza has just been toying with him. There's only one hope left - the Genki-Dama, the energy sphere attack gathered from all the planets and animals of Planet Namek and the neighboring worlds. If that hope fails, only the legend remains. Dragon Ball Z is one of the most popular manga in the world, with top-rated shows on the Cartoon Network and Telemundo.

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Good and entertaining but missing ending.......2006-02-26

it was all cool when goku turned super saiyan and was beating frezia pretty bad. It was all great until I got to the end of the book and frezia was still alive!! I had to read volume 12 to see the end of frezia. That cost me another 7.95.

If you're like me..........2005-10-09

I used to be a huge fan of dbz back when I was younger, but it is only now that i actually buy the manga. At first, I was unsure of buying any: most of the reviews are done by kids. So is this a kiddy manga? should I have bought this way back when I was 12 years old watching the edited tv show on cartoon network? Never fear. this volume (and all the other volumes) is well written, entertaining, and actually quite violent. I enjoy it whole heartedly.

Goku-First Super Saiyan in centuries.......2005-01-17

As the Genki dama is used as a desperation maneuver, hope is almost lost in Kuririn, Gohan, and Piccolo. Vegeta's corpse lies on the surface of Namek. The Genki Dama is unleashed, and it seems that Freeza has been defeated. Unfortunately, Freeza is still alive. As Freeza lifts Kurirn into the air, a power starts awakening in Goku. Kuririn is killed by Freeza. BRMMM. GRUMMMMMM. HAAAAAAA. BOOM. Goku has become a Super Saiyan. The one thing Freeza feared has just become reality. Will his tyranny come to an end? When you have a Super Saiyan on your side, lets just say "YOU'VE GOT ODDS"

SUPER SAIYAN AT LAST!!!!.......2003-08-27

Goku hits Frieza with the Genki Dama, but he's still alive, and then he kills Kuririn. This causes Goku to lose it, transforming into a super saiyan! Frieza is dead meat now, even when he powers up he gets thrashed. It's pretty much SSJGoku beating up Frieza for most of the book, but it's still pretty cool. It ends in the next volume(which begins the Anroids/Cell saga, and introduces Trunks). It's an awesome finish to the Goku vs. Frieza fight.

Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 11 (Dragon Ball Z (Sagebrush))

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Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 11 (Dragon Ball Z (Sagebrush))
Akira Toriyama
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding
ASIN: 0613674022

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Walter makes his third appearance in yet another unapologetically silly picture book, this one dedicated to "everyone who's ever felt misjudged or misunderstood." The story begins when animal gas expert Professor Kompressor pays a visit to Walter's family, equipped with a contraption that looks like a cross between a vacuum cleaner and an old phonograph: "I understand your dog has a farting disorder," he says. At first it seems as if the professor's prescription of powders and potions is working, but one day, young Billy and Betty see Walter floating like a helium balloon over the trees, so full of pent-up gas he has become airborne. Unable to release his gas, the unfortunate dog floats over hill and dale for days and days. The formula for these books requires the much-maligned Walter to redeem his gaseous self by saving the day (he gasses out burglars in the first one and helps catch bank robbers in the second). Here, even more absurdly, he saves millions of butterflies from a freezing windstorm by letting rip a warm cloud of air that melts the frost off their wings. Colorful, crisp, almost three-dimensional art, generated with a digital painting and collage technique, gives the book a bizarre, sophisticated style that both complements and elevates the cheap laughs. (Ages 6 to 9) --Karin Snelson

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Professor Kompressor visits Walter's family, offering a remedy for the dog's digestive disorder: special food that must be mixed in his Kompressatron. Unfortunately, the Professor's cure doesn't work, so Father has to take matters in his own hands. Father's combination of ingredients has a strange effect on the pooch—Walter blows up like a balloon and floats out the window! Just when it looks as though Walter's paws may never touch earth again, he encounters a flock of butterflies in distress. Only he has the hot air that can save them from an icy death. Once he lets it rip, Walter's flying days are over. (Or are they?) Plenty of laughs and cheers will arise from this story that takes Walter to new heights.

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spare us the latin edition of this one........2007-07-16

My kids liked the first Walter book, but didn't like this one.

The illustrations are even creepier.

Hurray for Walter !!.......2007-01-11

Another great Walter book. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of them.

Walter the farting dog.......2006-03-22

This book, Walter the farting dog, contains a great lesson while engaging children because of his socially unacceptable behavior. Don't judge a book by its cover....updated.

The best of the three Walter books..........2006-02-12

I love this book! The illustrations take a little getting used to (definitely off-beat, like the other two), and the storyline is slightly subversive, but the whole book is just very funny (for me, as an adult), and my kids love it, too. It's the one book that I will cheerfully read them twice in the same night. Farts aside, it's actually pretty wholesome and carries (I think) a positive message about being authentic and true to yourself. Plus, it has larger than usual words for a book targeted at this age group, which I think is useful. All in all, well worth the twelve or fourteen bucks you pay for it. I've bought copies for some other parents as gifts...(Nobody's complained...)

Not as good as you would think..............2005-12-19

Any book about farting should be better than this. My kid thought it would involve pooping, too, but it didnt ... it was dissappointing that way. farting is still funny , though. thanks amazon.com.

On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

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On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
Valerie Allen
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312234937
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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The study of the fart in medieval culture participates in the widespread and productive contemporary study of the body, its practices and its hermeneutics. As a consequence of the cultural materialist interest in the quotidian, recent criticism has moved away from an abstracted conception of selfhood toward an appreciation of how the concrete daily regimens of bodily habitus, generally taken for granted, shape the horizon of our cultural and individual consciousness. The fart, in its parodying of language and its logic of affinity, leads us ultimately to the problem of hermeneutics, of the art of interpretation itself. Although much of the medieval preoccupation with flatulence originates from the aesthetic of comic inversion, whereby farts "sing" or parody human language or are mistaken for departed souls, it also reflects a more serious interest in bodily health. A multifarious typology of the fart will permit a better understanding of the phenomenon's protean wealth of meaning.

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Educational! A musty-read!
Rippin' Good Book
Dr. Benjamin Bart's Brilliant Study on Farting
Juicy Collection of Humorous Nuggets

The History of Farting

Manufacturer: Trans-Atlantic Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1854797549

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Educational! A musty-read! .......2007-08-11

The book is definitey ALL CLASS. You know, a coffee- table book, because it shows a famous Old Master painting on its cover. So stylish. Quite a conversation piece, and it's sure to spark spirited discussions when you have people over.
If your last name rhymed with phart, wouldn't YOU feel an explosive compulsion to write a book about it? It's why I'm 100% conviced that "Dr. Bart" wrote the book for this very reason. I can smell it.

Rippin' Good Book.......2006-02-04

Amusement runs rampant in this book. Limericks abound about that indelicate function of the human body-it isn't a private function as some expulsion of wastes are, but it usually isn't a part of "polite" company. In addition there is an A to Z compendium of different classifications of farts. Interspersed are the ribald tales of the gaseous emissions and anecdotes of famous people and their flatulence. According to the author, Martin Luther could punctuate his sermons with ripping farts. Good thing he was preaching, because if he was in the congregation then Confucius words would apply: "He who fart in church sits in own pew." (Unfortunately, the author fails to provide any bibliography so that I can find where he got his information.)

Is it ironic that the author's last name rhymes with the subject of the book? Hmmm, how's this for a limerick in the spirit of the book:

There once was a doctor named Bart
Who wrote a ripping book on the fart
So studious he came
To flatulent fame
The book you don't stop once you start

This is, to be sure, a rather small book, a collection of assorted limericks, facts, and blurbs on breaking wind. Graphic illustrations and cartoons are interspersed. And laughs are assured for all.

Dr. Benjamin Bart's Brilliant Study on Farting.......2001-05-06

The world owes much to Dr. Benjamin Bart. How did we survive before he put together this profound historical work? Has anybody nominated Dr. Bart for a Nobel prize? He deserves at least a Pulitzer. There are rumors that the good doctor earnestly began his inquiries into the art and possible health benefits of farting sometime during the early years of his childhood. Some claim that little Benjamin was nicknamed "Bart the Fart." I think there was something about this in the "National Enquirer," but unfortunately I forgot the exact date of that most important issue.

Dr. Bart believes that there is right way and a wrong way to fart. He tells us how the smart people perform this most human of tasks. I bet the reader was unaware that the famous philosopher Rene Descartes supposedly asked "Since I think--I exist, but what does it mean when I fart?" Ah, the education one can obtain outside the walls of a university. Did your philosophy professor have a clue concerning the more esoteric aspects of Descartes' philosophical insights? There are many other flatulent examples that should broaden your intellectual horizons.

"The History of Farting" even has some pictures to help one's illiterate cohorts. This book thankfully has little to do with either thee or me. We would rarely, if ever, do anything like farting. Should we, however, embarrass our buddies by presenting them with a gift copy of this perspicaciously brilliant expose of their less than polite habits? Of course we should. After all, what are friends for?

Juicy Collection of Humorous Nuggets.......2000-09-26

My Mother passed this book to me after she had vented its fare on her afternoon club. It is divided into six chapters, each spouting limericks and anecdotes concerning various aspects of crepitation. I found that I had a "whiff of a memory" of several of the dozens of limericks, a poetic form particularly suited to the subject of flatulence. There are airy songs, putrid prose and smudgy cartoons throughout the book. The final chapter, "The A-Z of Farting," expounds on preponderant and pathetic forms of flatulence, which have been so prevalent among man (and woman) for as long as the wind has blown.

If you are looking for a good laugh and enjoy nature in its rudest form, this all to brief, passing wisp of wit will tickle and inspire you. Put in your "bubba teeth," grab a beer and read this on your next airline flight. FFRRRRRRRRRRRUPUPUPUP! Excuse Me.

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Help! My Dog Can't Stop Farting! (Internet Vet)

Manufacturer: Scholastic
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