Description
[cross-listed with SOC 3604; G/C; Asian Studies minor; Social Practice minor] This class will examine images of Asia and Asian Americans in American and transnational film and media, and how these reflect the national anxieties and fantasies precipitated by Asian immigration, labor policies, and US imperialist interests in Asia. We will address the shifting perceptions of Asian Americans as Other in film and media, with particular attention to the presence of Orientalist discourse in representations of Asian Americans as “the yellow peril” or “the model minority” and other stereotypes. The course will also explore the intersectionality of race, national identity, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic class in the depictions of Asian Americans in film and media.