Serial Crime, Serious Threats? Replicating the 'Yellow Peril' in British Popular Crime Fiction

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Marilena Parlati¹ 

[1] Marilena Parlati Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e letterari, Università di Padova, Padova (IT);

关键词: icona culturale;    cultural icon;    yellow peril;    sax rohmer;    fu manchu;    seriality;    serial 'things';   

DOI  :  10.12977/ocula2020-12

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

From 1912 and for numerous decades, Sax Rohmer contributed to create, and recreate, an archvillain of tremendous vigour, Fu Manchu, whose routing lives, appallingly magnetic powers, subterranean connections made him a global star. In this paper I peruse this multi-faceted serial icon, formulaic and yet also changing over time, and see its presence and apparent disappearance from the cultural panorama of the Anglophone world. This multimedial serial figure has been let loose, like Frankenstein's creature, and its progeny may still be detected in film, cartoons and global popular culture.

【 授权许可】

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