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AAST 335 - Hitaansh Gaur
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Film - Desai (8/28/24)
- Film as an institution for establishing and maintain a racial order within the American nation and empire. Plays an important role in racism,war, and and imperialism.
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- Many Hollywood films are racist, perpetuate hyper sexualized stereotypes, and often push yellow face.
- Asian media can thrive without having to go through Hollywood, often through independent means. There, stereotypes can be fought.
- Film and media are really important and cant just be ignored. Representation in film and media, especially accurate representation, has very real effects in relation to power.
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The Other Question - Stereotype, Discrimination, and the Discourse in Colonialism - Bhabha (9/2/24)
- Excess of ambivalence is central to stereotypes. Helps give the stereotype power.
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- "The point of intervention should understand the process of subjectification made possible through stereotypical discourse". Don't just dismiss it or come in with preconceived notions, engage with "its effectivity".
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- You have to engage with the stereotype to deconstruct and fight it. And you have to do it in a fully truthful manner.
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The Cheat (9/1/24)
- First time watching a black and white movie, and also a silent film.
- Hardy is shown has a hard working man that is working to support his family. His wife is shown as ungrateful and impatient, always wanting to spend more money.
- Haka Arakau is shown as mysterious figure from the start. Seems like he has some relationship with Edith and they have some interest in one another.
- Haka is shown as an aggressor towards Edith. He tries to put his arm around her, he kisses he when she faints, and then makes a deal with her (for sex it seems like) in exchange of 10k. He is shown as very predatory and twisted in that manner.
- Husband comes saying they have money, Edith decides that she will just give Haka 10k back and not have to have sex, she goes to Haka but Haka refuses (once again being shown as ungrateful and lustful). They fight and Haka brands her (showing predatory and wanting ownership over white women, wanting to take and own them).
- Husband is once again shown as good and caring as he takes the blame for shooting Haka. He also fully forgives wife (why?). In court he is shown as a "real man" for taking responsibility for shooting. He just always does the right things.
- When verdict comes back guilty, Edith freaks out and goes in front of the court and confesses everything. She recreates the whole grabbing scene/fight and then shows off her branding. This leads to the crowd getting super riled up ready to lynch Haka.
- Protecting the fragility of a white woman seems to be a big thing here. Even though she messed up at every step, she is always forgiven and must always be protected.
- The mob justice doesn't go through -> does the government have any say in this? In the Indian movie Sholay the evil guy just gets put in jail instead of killed because the government wanted to promote cooperation and letting justice/the law system win.
Extra Notes
- One comedic scene of the guard coming in and seeing Hardy and his wife making out. He is like get a damn room. That scene seemed out of place.
- Doing some post research, found that before the dude was Japanese and then after they changed him to Burmese because Japan was an ally of USA in WW1. Quite interesting reflection of how the film was changed.
- Seems like everyone is just happy at the end. I don't understand why Edith was just forgiven? She is still like a bad person. Everyone is bad except the husband it seems like.
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Color as Hue and Color as Race: early Technicolor, Ornamentalism, and Toll of the Sea - Peng (9/9/2024)
Color in film shows an important way to distinguish between races of people by skin tone. (page 1,2)
In Toll of the Sea, people seemed to not be happy that there was no "yellowing" of Anna Ma Wong (pg 2)
The idea off Yellowing comes in the racial thinking in the 19th century, when they became the yellow race (top of page 16).
Literally not possible to yellow with the technology, but bright yellow was used in the advertisements. (bottom page 2)
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Coloring of the skin "correctly" (aka with a white perspective), adds to sex appeal and is important to film makers back in the day (page 9)
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"The relationship between the Chinese heroine and her environment that marks her as racially distinct from her Caucasian lover and female counterpart." (Page 13)
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She acts as a symbol of the Orient. Something like a "body ornament". Wong was used to add "authentic" oriental flavorful (page 15)
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"entanglement of the ornamentation yellow woman and the material-aesthetic history of early natural color cinematography" (pg 2 bottom)
The coloring is not random or natural. There are active choices made in the subtractionand layer of colors (page 5 mid)
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The "Chinese" element are "just waiting for reproduction in colors". And the Chinese scenary is prefect to reproduce and test color in. (Page 12). Really makes China 1 dimensional.
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White is not a a color, "it is a coalition". It is a means to control peoples view points, and doesn't have to do too much with actual skin tone (page 17, 18)
Opening scene/allegory could be seen as summarizing colonialism, which makes a lot of sense. (page 18 bottom, 19 top)
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When Dragon Ladies Die, Do They Come Back as Butterflies? Re-Imagining Anna May Wong. - Cynthia W. Liu (9/11/24)
Two main roles, "dragon lady" and "butterfly". She became the the "screen's foremost Oriental villainess" (Page 4)
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Masculine racial pride and anti-white race hatred in the mutually reinforcing "duplicity" of being Asian and being a woman." (Page 4)
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The stereotypes go beyond the screen. They go into the actual actions of Asian American women (pg 5)
There is more to the criticism of broken Asian women, and other writers question that only criticism. (pg 7)
There are two schools of thought on this which this paper is covering. Dismantling stereotypes and then refunction representation school. (pg 8)
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People wanted to know if there was truth behind her character in her personal life. They wanted to know about her sexual and personal life (pg9-10)
Adds to her iconic-ness and fame possibly. It is a lot more complex than the simple characters she plays (pg 10)
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Hays Office Code is racist and means to control films and peoples perceptions. It enacts a form of control on the art which is film making, keeping it in line with White interests. (pg 12)
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