Whitewashing the Movies : : Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture / / David C Oh.
Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpos...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 1 b-w image |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Whitewashing Romance in Hawai’i: Aloha
- 2 White China Experts, Asian American Twinkies: Shanghai Calling and Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
- 3 White Grievance, Heroism, and Postracist, Mixed-Race Inclusion: 47 Ronin
- 4 Satire and the Villainy of Kim Jong-un: The Interview
- 5 White Survival in Southeast Asia: No Escape and The Impossible
- 6 Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution
- 7 Transnational Coproduction and the Ambivalence of White Masculine Heroism: The Great Wall, Outcast, and Enter the Warriors Gate
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author