“Asian Culture” and Asian American Identities in the Television and Film Industries of the United States

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ID19149272
AutoresHemant Shah (0000-0002-6423-2383, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume3
Fascículo3
Páginas1-10
Data de publicação2003-08-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1496-6603 • E-ISSN: 1496-6603
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/sim.3.3.002
OpenAlexW1964873468
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

“Asian” culture has long been fodder for films and television shows produced in the United States. Four main stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans emerged from the imagination of primarily white cultural producers in Hollywood: “Yellow Peril,” “Dragon Lady,” “Charlie Chan,” and “Lotus Blossom.” These images can be understood as “controlling images” in the sense that negative stereotypes provide justifications for social control and positive stereotypes provide normative models for Asian thought and behavior. Resistance to these images became substantial in the 1960s when Asian American filmmakers developed “triangular cinema,” a strategy for Asian American community building, political mobilization, and the creation of an Asian American film aesthetic. The films of triangular cinema are “liberating images” that stake out a position for independence and autonomy for Asian American communities

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