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AAST355 - Asian Americans in Film, Early Representations, What It Means to…
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Early Representations
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Thurs 9/7 Color-as-hue and Color-as-race: Early Technicolor, Ornamentalism, and Toll of the Sea
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The landscape and material objects in comparison to the skin tone are used to highlight the Oriental side in the film
Relegating color to the realm of the 'superficial, the supplementary, the inessential or the cosmetic' or by attaching it to something alien and dangerous.
Tues 9/5 The Cheat
As the main Asian American lead, Hayakawa is portraying a man who acts as a sexual predator. This contributes to yellow fever, and how it portrays Asian Americans as bad for the morals of American Life.
This is problematic if it is the only representation for Asian Americans during this period. There is a repulsiveness to this character and it may perpetuate the same generalization to all Asians and Asian Americans. Reminds me of how sometimes when an actor/actress does a really good job, people start to hate them in real life since it is hard to separate reality from fiction in a good film.
Hayakawa's character is used as a villain, as someone who is a threat to domestic family life in the US
Tues 9/5 The Other Question - Stereotype, Discrimination, and the Discourse in Colonialism
Stereotype cannot be proven, however it is something that is often repeated until it is the first connotation.
There is the idea of fixity that allows ideas of colonialism to take shape, that the sign of cultural/historical/racial differences that connote rigidity and an unchanging order.
Refocus our attention on the processes of becoming the stereotype, rather than thinking about its positive/negative effects and proximities to truthfulness
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