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- - - - This is shown by how Arakau brands Edith as "his" out of his twisted love and desire to have her (ownership)
      - Arakau also attempts to make Edith "his" by sexually assaulting her. His blatant disregard of her protests while he manhandles her shows that while he loves her, he doesn't view them as equal and treats her like an object to attain.
  - - - He sexually assaults her and even brands his insignia on her skin... A cruel man (cruelty in his sexual aggression)
      - Always been a dangerous man, and it was scary that he could hide it so well..
- - - - Rape of the white woman = metaphor of Asian threat posed to the entire Western civilization (3)
      - Arakau in The Cheat tried to rape Edith
    - - They're "discourses" whose meaning comes from the instituion (film industry and beyond) + historical, cultural, and social circumstances at that time (conceret manifestation of their ideologies) (7)
- - - - Allen's lack of guilt at pursuing another woman (24:20) and also lack of guilt of leaving her behind only to come back to China with his wife (36:00)
- - - - Preservation of White Beauty - Ronald shifts his :attention to Joan after finding out the "true nature" of Ling Moy
    - - Asian Mysticism as well since how did he come back to life??
  - - - Both women fell for him (and Ling Moy chose him over Ah Kee, an asian)
- - - - yellow face proliferated and evolved into what it is today; 100+ plays & 120+ Hollywood films with Asian themes/characters were created during this time period (tool for exclusion)
      - dramatized Asians as suspicious and undesirable, thus dserving of exclusion
      - These "made-up Asians" took the place of excluded Asians who weren't present to represent themselves realistically as these stereotypes ran rampant
    - - Yellowface was created + made known theatrically by the practices of actors, designers, directors, and stage technicians (perfect "oriental slant" and invest in oriental costumers
      - many hours + resoucres were spent perfecting yellowface as both an art form and a technical achievement: film history is full of technical advancement stumbled across in the makeup dept bc of yellowface
- - - - He even bought her an oriental headdress and clothes "that an empress wore" (1:32:00)
        
        Suzie is a canvas for robert’s fantasy, embodying the exotic oriental image that he desires (Asian women as objects of fascination for Western men) (Class Discussion)
- - - - Heritage: created the space for U.S. Asians to be more radical (69)
- - - - Daric is the one whose the most afraid to lose his Model Minority image because he still sticks to it the most at the end (Hitansh)
- - - - Ben "wins" Steph results from Ben's deliberate act of masculine aggression (killing Steven) (157)
- - - - The children yearn to know more about their parents/grandparents' time in the camp that Rea even goes back to the internment barrack that her mother lived in.
- - - - Ron thinks of himself as not prejudiced either, and even uses the fact that his daughter "used to help an Asian kid at school" as a defense (50:15)
      - He talks about how he is "not aware of that they have a plight” (50:03)
- - - - Implies that white lives are of greater value than the life for the slain Chinese victim (39)
      - "People who had endured a lifetime of degrading treatment were wondering if their capacity to suffer in silence might no longer be a virtue, when even in death, they could be so disrepected" (39)
    - - ACJ was careful not to throw the Racsim card around bc they understood its gravity; they only spoke about that motivation when Eben was heard to say that "it was because of your motherf*ckers that we're out of work" (45-46)
        
        Hesitation arose when they were debating if they should talk abt race in the case. Worried about alienating supporter and abt where Asian Americans fit in America (btwn the stuggle of W/B) Can they affort to be view negatively w/o the numbers and strength as blacks? (47)
        
        A civil rights suit would involve race and the fight to educating people on racisim against Asians, but staying silent won't protect them from racial hostility (47)
        
        When they proceeded w/ the Civil Rights angle, many (whites and liberals) rejected their claims. Civil Rights protected the blacks, and Asisans were considered white (But ACJ received a lot of support too and developed an international following for the issue (48)
      - ACJ also took on employement and discrimination referrals, campaigned against offensive media images, lobbied to create a statewide A.A advisory commission (52)
- - - - The government did not help the Manongs adjust or relocate
- - - - Have to help with phone calls and translating texts from English to Vietnamese (21:20)
    - - “Mother and daughter relationships are quite complicated” & mothers frequently insult their daughters (22:16)
      - When Van finally picks up the call from her mother, she’s no longer confident and bold; she has been reduced to a daughter instead of the brilliant TV persona she had on before (22:55)
        
        Van walks into water (wetland?) while she's talking on the phone like she’s returning to her Vietnamese roots (22:38) >>> Drowning in responsibilities and an inability to leave the water (C.D) + Ambiguity bc water also symbolizes rebirth
        
        Her mother constantly talks over Van and doesn’t listen to her. It's not out of spite, but it still has negative impacts on her. Her mom keeps thinking that she knows best. (23:50)
        
        We see that her mom still cares about her, in how she tells her to wear a jacket (a sign of affection from Asian parents) and even remembers the time she was born. (26:30)
- - - - Additionally, despite going to a club, Harry can't dance while Demetrius can. Having the ability to dance makes one more attractive, and Harry loses out on an opportunity to get close/embrace Mina because he can't dance (which Demetrius kind of took advantage of) (33:50)
- - - - Shows the true human nature; it's hard to revise one's initial mindeset + a part of Bobby didn't actually believe in Changez. He was always a bit suspicious of him, even though Changez only answered him after he pleaded him for the truth.
        
        The film wants us to caution ourselves against these kinds of misconceptions. Bobby was ashamed and (kind of) regretful when he realized that Changez was innocent all along.The film wants us to remember to believe
- - - - The film "illuminates but fails to transcend the grographical and historical boundaries of Birt colonialism and American slavery.
    - - In recent films, the 'happy ending' that Mina didn't get has become a common trope and a "chief box-office draw of immigrant and diaspora films" (179)
    - - Comedy was rooted in racial caricatures (for both Indian and African American men) (182)
      - Feminiists believe that the costume designs reduced Indian and African women to exotic spectacles (182)
      - Romanticization of Uganda's brutal and demeaning colonial history (bc of the nostalgic depiction) (182)
    - - Balanced inflexible racial stereotypes + the fluidity of individual racial identities (182)
      - Tapped into the anxieties abt national belonging that have long formed in Asian Americans (182)
    - - "Double Disapora" - multiply displaced; the film dwlls on "unresolved journeys, ambivalence about "home", and the obscurity of geographical origins" (185)
      - "Shared ethinicty does not bridge the economic and ideological distance btwn Uganda-bred Jay and the Indian immigrants (185)
      - At the beginning, the shared sense of displacement produces a seemingly mutual support system btwn blacks and Indians in Greenwood (185)
        
        "As soon as "sticking togther" becomes sexual, the moments of easy multiculturlism becomes difficult. The mutual support system built on shared racial oppresion quickly falls apart." (186)
    - - "Hybrid in every dimension" - Mina's Indian skin color has multiple meanings: "its erotic value, its literal darkness, its symbolic whiteness" (187)
    - - "The Indian character acheive social and economic mobility by emulating the capitalist values of the white ruling class, denigrating black people (188)
    - - The visual of their happy ending disrupts the film's journey "into the future of racial identity, suggesting that there is neither a real geographical space nor an acceptable social space for this hybrid relationship. (193)
- - - - In the flashbacks, even though she keeps calling out to Willson, he never responds or looks her way, he’s constantly fiddling with his toys instead (32:50) I wonder if that's how their past relationship was like or if her imagination twisted it?
      - She ends up keeping the broken one-winger microbot while donating all the fixed ones (42:40)
  - - - However, her reacting with sadness instead of anger (like her mom did) made the baby robot feel like coming out to comfort and hug her instead. (22:40) MEANWHILE THE FATHER IS STILL NOT PRESENT...
  - - - Archie is then forced to work half-naked to maintain peak efficiency (avoid being battery-dead). His female coworker takes the chance to sexually harass him too.. Disgusting (53:20)
    - - “Could we give them a little privacy please?” and everyone actually dispersing --> finally starts treating the robots more human-like (58:40)
  - - - Johnny doesn't want to be reduced to a digital thing-- he wants to be able to feel and touch things himself (1:09:00)
    - - However, even this robot cannot convince him to scan his brain despite multiple attempts to do so. (1:14:00) He tells her “It’s all a lie. You… I don’t want to live forever with a happiness I never earned.” (1:14:50)
    - - He passes away peacefully at a creek, surrounded by nature instead of futuristic technology (1:17:20)
- - - - Ads - "Visual medium that depicts society, advertising contains narratives about race and portrays racialized bodies" just like tv shows (9)

KEY:

- Independent readings are in green & turquoise (except for EEAAO)                                              
- Ideas from class are cited as "C.D"                                                                - The color of the movies correspond with the reading for that movie