Serial Crime, Serious Threats? Replicating the ‘Yellow Peril’ in British Popular Crime Fiction
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Ocula
Author: Marilena Parlati
Institution: University of Padua
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3016538134