The Breakout Of The Racial Paradigm

Since the 1930s,when China was gradually exposed to international,the Chinese story on the Hollywood screen has undergone a "de-spectacularization" rewrite,with the subject matter shifting from crime and robberies to realistic films and wartime documentaries,and the Chinese people being swept away from the gloom and negativity of the past and presented in a new image.American director Frank Capra’s four Chinese films witnessed this great change,but the director’s bold breakthroughs in terms of themes,artistic techniques and genre innovation made these four films extremely unique in Hollywood film history and in the director’s creative career.They are atypical works of Capra,witnessing the exploration of the director’s purely artistic path and the highest and lowest point of the director’s career in Hollywood.By studying the historical of Chinese image production through genealogical methods,this paper explores how Chinese images in Capra’s films break through the barriers of traditional image and break the negative Stereotypical racial images,but are still ultimately dominated and divided by the white supremacist American society.At the same time,through analyzing the production of image space,we explore how mysticism and Orientalism have jointly shaped the image of China on the screen.