Yellow Future’s emphasis on ‘oriental style’ is interesting and fresh. I can see other scholars in the field picking up this term and running with it, both in their writing and teaching. Jane Chi Hyun Park has written an excellent, useful book.

Yellow Future is insightful while remaining accessible, making it a valuable contribution to both the Asian American and film studies canons.

On its own terms, the book is a complete success, as it synthesizes the substantial critical work already available while providing a more fluid political future for study of “oriental style.” Park somehow manages to say new things about Blade Runner and The Matrix, in addition to doing some major work on the oriental buddy film. The enormous amount of precise and helpful context he offers make the reader pine for a parallel book that looks at oriental style in US independent film.

An informative and interesting book which should make an excellent springboard for class discussion.

Yellow Future is a well-organized and compellingly argued book which provides a new theoretical framework in which to evaluate the cinematic representation of East Asia and Asian people in Hollywood movies during the era of globalization.

This is a timely work, for it engages with several other recent entries that address similar topics of cross-cultural productions . . . with an innovative approach to and account of the history and politics of Asian America in film and a useful critical framework for addressing the understudied presence of oriental style in contemporary cinema.