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Asian American in Film - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Crazy Rich Asian
        
        the movie reflects the traditional Asian culture of wife and mother issue that happens in the family and the concept of being "on the same level" to be able to be married
      - Everything Everywhere all at Once
        
        A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
    - - Based on the study by USC, the AAPI population in the film are significantly less than other group of races.
    - - films function as cultural capital for consumption, linking buying power with social successes.
    - - Does a film need to contend with or represent an Asian American-related issue to be considered Asian American?
    - - the representation of Asia, especially the Middle East, in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude.
  - - - differences between excrescence and essence, surface and interiority, the peripheral and the central, femininity and masculinity
        
        this is a disclosure of the racialized femininity and masculinity
      - orientalism enthusiast proactively urges us to look beyond the gender and color of the human figure
      - understanding the racial ideology implicated in the aesthetics of the film the problem of fringing and the limited range of spectrum that could be reproduced by a two-colour process.
    - - Despite technical limitations like a limited color spectrum and flickering, the ornamentalism and royal presence diverted audience attention.
        The two-color process's shortcomings were masked by the overall spectacle and royal aura.
    - - Colour adds a projective dimensionality, creating a sensational stereoscopic impression.
        Depth in a two-dimensional image requires collaboration with movement or colour separation.
- - - - there are organizations that support the independent film study and organization that support film production and to unite the community as a whole.
    - - but the empowerment of the asian american film is very much advocate with various form of action
    - - these are the comments that the asian american film trying to portrayed to the audience and standout for more minorities
      - with different strategy and methods to make the asian american film more understanding in the methodology ways
    - - this will help to stabilize the community more and for the more safety for the asian american and stand out to the public eye with their own production
      - talk about minorities and make the community notice their needs and struggles through film
- - - - there are so many history between each of the country of asia and it is important to understand the complexity of their culture and its political issue that is influencing the difference between each country
      - Different category of asian
        
        East Asian: Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
        
        Southeast Asian: Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai
        
        Complexities groups of Asian: Russian, Philippino, Hawaiian
    - - Stereotypes and Misrepresentations:
        
        Orientalism involves the construction of simplistic and often inaccurate stereotypes about Asian cultures, characterizing them as exotic, mysterious, backward, or even threatening.
      - Cultural Hegemony
        
        Orientalist representations contribute to the cultural hegemony of the West, influencing how Asians are perceived and treated in Western societies. This can affect various aspects, including politics, media, literature, and popular culture.
      - Impact on Identity
        
        Orientalist representations can have a profound impact on the identities of Asian individuals and communities, contributing to feelings of otherness, exoticization, and marginalization.
      - Critique and Deconstruction
        
        Scholars, activists, and cultural critics engage in critiques of Orientalism, aiming to deconstruct these stereotypes and challenge the power dynamics embedded in such representations. This involves promoting more accurate and nuanced portrayals of Asian cultures.
    - - The Asian people starting to realize that the lenient sentencing for the the America against Asian people and protecting the white people is something that needs to be addressed. (more will be discussed when we talk about the film in the coggle map)
      - the injustice for the innocent life that is taken away from asian american from the white and the white guy was able to escape and not have to be responsible what he has done has made the asian american united to against the justice system.
      - the injustice asian american is getting is not tolerable and people protest for the injustice
    - - the war with america has reinforced the stereotype from the american towards to these specific group of people
      - targeting the asian american at that time period of the society is commonly seen and commonly ignored
      - The war was within the government of the two countries and targeting the people with their race is something that is not right
      - the korean industry in the states were jeopardised by the African American in the late 1900s and the police's indifference made them know that they need to standout for themselves
  - - - overly generalize the race of different group of asian and just call them by Asian American instead of their ethnicity
      - there are also difference within Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kongese, and Macaw (more in-depth can be catagoize by West and East coast Chinese american)
      - the article points out that the asian american get to be called by their full name where the media is from this reflects the injustice and not emphasize in the public eye.
        
        Quotes You dont see the film out of Africa being called African American film and you dont see Luis Bunuel being called a Mexican American filmaker
    - - an embodiment of Asian diasporic esthetics
      - an exercise on dominant cultural politics
      - While making the film there is no correct ways to approach it but all the films should reveal the truth of what the asian american are facing currently or with other methods to make their name shown and grab the public attention.
  - - - emphasised the culture differences between asian and american
      - the diversity of the asian community
      - milestones and historical moments
    - - this really shows that we need to speak out for ourselves
      - make sure that our voice is heard from the public
      - get more attentions from the public by producing something that is "from our eye"
      - need to let the world knows our culture by producing the films and studies which has to done by asian people and taking actions from now on and conceptively
- - - - Beirut during the 1975-1976 civil war
      - European perception of the Orient's disappearance
      - European representation of the Orient's contemporary fate
    - - Orient as a European invention
      - Romanticized notions of the Orient
      - Orientalism as a cultural and political force
    - - Association with the Far East (China and Japan)
      - Limited tradition of Orientalism compared to Europe
      - Increasing American role in the Near East
    - - Constant interchange between academic and imaginative meanings
      - Disciplined traffic between the two since the late eighteenth century
    - - Limitations imposed by Orientalism on thought and action
      - Network of interests involved in occasions related to the Orient
      - European culture gaining strength and identity by setting itself off against the Orient
  - - - Rejection of the notion that the Orient is an inert fact of nature
      - Acknowledgment that the Occident is similarly constructed
    - - In the article it emphasize the importance of the affirmation that the West and the Orient support and reflect each other
      - The idea of the Orient has a history and tradition that gives it reality in the West
      - Mutual shaping of geographical entities through cultural constructs
    - - In the article the emphasis on Orientalism as a phenomenon dealing with its internal consistency
      - Recognition that Orientalism primarily deals with ideas about the Orient
- - - - Some of the films that includes the slur: Patria (1919), The Yellow Menace (1916), The Exploits of Elaine (1916), and The Perils of Pauline (1919)
    - - Quotes: Hollywood returns to this theme for complex reasons that seem to be related to economic, social, and cultural issues that have been part of the fabric of American history since well before the birth of the motion picture industry.
    - - Quotes: Hollywood films operate mythically. They take up, aestheticize, and symbolically resolve social contradictions, then deny the process by masking their ideological operations behind an apparently seamless, "invisible style."
    - - Quotes: Although the power of the lascivious Asian woman to seduce the white male has long been part of this fantasy, a far more common scenario involves the threat posed by the Asian male to white women.
    - - In this article, the Hollywoods has two distinct critical modes
        
        dismantling stereotype
        
        refunctioning representation
      - the symbolization of butterfly was refer in the movie toll of the sea as well
      - Quotes: By arguing that recycled images of "dragon lady" and "butterfly stereotypes persist well beyond their initial screening, Chu attempts to link the dominant audience's proclivity, and appetite, for racialized-sexualized types in popular culture with the enactment of racialized-sexualized types in the behavior and beliefs of contemporary Asian women.
- - - - this is showing the superiority of the western man that has the hierarchy of the white supremacy
      - It just kills me. let me take care of you (1:26:54 - 1:28:07)
      - I could have changed that; that’s what I didn’t understand. (1:52:30 - 1:53:21)
    - - the western film back in the days are often describe asian as somewhat evil and not trustworthy and trying to reinforce the stereotype in the western world
    - - this is the wrong accusation on the western woman in the way to diminish the value of an asian women and these wrong stereotype can leads to worst stereotype
    - - I want to be like nice English girl for you - Suzie (1:27:52)
    - - this is another way of showing white supremacy because that the white people are clearly showing favor of their own and trying to demote other race and make themselves feel better
    - - Rips of Suzie’s clothes to make her look less western, does not make her look less like a prostitute.
      - Asian women want to get beat, violence is seen as devotion.
  - - - Moral panic and scopophila
    - - pain in performing and viewing
      - compel the acceptance of perverse and polymorphous sexuality
- - - - “Local unions sponsored sledge-hammer events giving frustrated workers a chance to smash Japanese cars for a dollar a swing” (37).
      - Japanese cars were vandalized and drivers were shot at on freeways (37).
      - “Bumper stickers threatened ‘Honda, Toyota—Pearl Harbor” (37).
    - - Judge Charles Kauffman said that his reasoning for the punishment of Ebens was that “These aren't the kind of men you send to jail…You fit the punishment to the criminal, not the crime” (Zia 39).
    - - The jury that was eventually seated looked remarkably like the defendant, Ronald Ebens- mostly white, male, and blue-collar
      - Barely half a dozen of them, they constitutes the majority of Asian American attorneys in the entire state
      - This movie was filmed because of the murder that causes Vincent Chin’s death was not punished the sentence they deserved. (both convicted of manslaughter instead of murder)
      - Ronald Ebens was sentenced to 3 years of probation, a $3,000 fine, and 25 hours of community service
        Michael Nitz with same fine and sentence, but with 100 community service hour
      - “These aren’t the kind of men you send to jail,” Kaufman said in defense of the sentences. “We’re talking here about a man who’s held down a responsible job for 17 or 18 years, and his son is employed and is a part-time student.
        Even though the evidence directly pointed out “It’s because of you motherf*ers that we’re out of work.” which makes it a racial and hate crime.
  - - - Helen Zia led Asian American lawyers and community leaders banded together to create American Citizens for Justice (ACJ): an advocacy organization that rallied with several diverse groups—churches, synagogues, Black activists—to protest Kaufman's sentencing.
      - “As a result of the Chin case, Asian Americans today are much more willing to speak out on the issue of anti-Asianism; they are also much better organized than they were at the time of Chin’s death. . . . Besides combating anti-Asian violence, these pan-Asian organizations provide a social setting for building pan-Asian unity” (Zia, 54)
- - - - showcase asian stereotype
- - - - UCLA had a chance for the studetns to represent this type of cienma during the time period (1970s)
- - - - the trend of the "it gets better" helps the people that is still in the closet have the courage to face the judgement from the outside world
      - the film saving face emphasize the hardship that the asian american have to face because of the stereotypes that they face because of the asian american are not as open mind to these
        
        the outcome of the film is all good though because the main charachter ended up getting accepted by the mom for her sexuality at the end
      - being able to have the courage is not easy since that the social value is not as accepting for the world
      - social death, material violance
        
        focus on fictions published around 2000 and beyond because they complicate
        
        and critique the contemporary discourses of postracial thought and queer op-
        
        timism that overstate narratives of progress concerning equality. (Sohn, 4)
        
        Quotes
        
        The struggle to survive is not really separable from the cultural life of fantasy,
        
        and the foreclosure of fantasy—through censorship, degradation, or other
        
        means—is one strategy for providing for the social death of persons.
        
        quotes
        
        The queer Asian North American is a figure in danger of being written out
        
        of traditional kinship systems, which are encompassed by two core elements:
        
        (1) biological relations to entities such as parents and siblings and (2) an ap-
        
        propriate, often assumed-to-be heterosexual, monogamous marriage partner. (sohn 6)
- - - - The quote discusses a chapter that challenges the traditional separation of history and memory. It emphasizes the importance of women, specifically Hmong refugee women, in understanding history. The chapter aims to disrupt stereotypes by questioning the portrayal of Hmong refugees as valorized soldiers and challenges the idea that Hmong refugee women are unable to attain citizenship due to language barriers.
  - - - It delves into themes of prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural misunderstandings.
    - - His initial bigotry and racism gradually give way to a deeper understanding and acceptance of the Hmong community.
    - - It highlights the potential for understanding and unity across cultural divides.
    - - "Gran Torino" touches on the widening generation gap, contrasting Walt's values with those of the younger generation, including his own family members.
    - - the racist theme says that asian people eats dogs and cats which reinforce the stereotypes until this day
    - - Walt is portrayed as a lonely and isolated figure, reflecting on the impact of loss, war experiences, and changing social dynamics on individuals.
    - - n the film, Hmong refugees are a foreign threat to Walt’s neighborhood,
      - and, by extension, their presence drains local and federal resources. Thao
      - and Sue’s grandmother as a Hmong-speaking matriarch represents the help-
      - lessness and inscrutability of Hmong families. (Vang, 165)
- - - - When Mississippi Masala was released in American
      - theaters in 1992, its controversial treatment of history, race, and miscege-
      - nation propelled Nair into the American spotlight; reviews and interviews
      - alike portrayed the director as an Indian feminist whose films cracked
      - open cultural master-narratives and re-imagined them from previously
      - unconsidered viewpoints. (Sheshagirl)
    - - addresses many of the same interracial and
      - intergenerational conflicts as Bhaji on the Beach, but also introduces the
      - element of homosexuality to an Indian American family in cultural tran-
      - sition.1
    - - When Reena, an Indian American lesbian henna artist, offers to
      - bear a child for her infertile sister, Sarita, she and Sarita must placate their
      - traditional Indian mother, Meenu, who refers to Reena’s homosexuality
      - as a “disability
        
        This is a serious issue tangle around the homosexuality and what they face during those time period
    - - The intercial against homosxtuality has been issue for a long time
  - - - they reflect the sentiments of Ugandan Asians who were expelled from Uganda during the rule of General Idi Amin.