asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Sai-I-Gu: From Korean Women's Perspectives" (1993)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/12/commentary-sai-i-gu-from-korean-womens.html
Saturday, December 1, 2007. Commentary "Sai-I-Gu: From Korean Women's Perspectives" (1993). I grew up in an area of. That has a large Korean population and many of my friends’ families were directly affected by the. Most of the stories I’d heard were about brothers and fathers who had fought to defend their stores and property, and were either put on trial for assault or severely injured in the process. What struck me about the video Sa-I-Gu. By opening up a dialogue for Korean women. As mi gook,. Was bo...
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: November 2007
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Friday, November 30, 2007. Commentary "AKA Don Bonus" (1995). When we are talking about Asian American representations, especially male ones, Don Bonus is both a positive and complicated figure. He was a representation of Asian American men that I have never encountered before until this film. His face is familiar, but his story is not—he is a Cambodian refugee living and dealing with poverty, robbery and vandalism in a ghetto in. By their parents but were essentially left without guidance. I was especia...
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "American Sons" (1995)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/11/commentary-american-sons-1995.html
Friday, November 30, 2007. Commentary "American Sons" (1995). 8220;Racism made me—the way I look, the way I walk, the way I talk.”. The varying experiences of the Asian American men interviewed in American Sons. Allowed the filmmaker, Steven Okazaki, to show that despite our experiences as Asian American individuals, who we are as Asian Americans is in fact a response to racism. Center for Asian American Media. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Center for Asian American Media. ExEAS - Expanding East As...
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Flower Drum Song" (1961)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/11/flower-drum-song-1961.html
Friday, November 30, 2007. Commentary "Flower Drum Song" (1961). My initial reaction to Flower Drum Song. Was one of indifference. Though I had heard of the movie, I was unfamiliar with its subject matter and therefore viewed it as simply another generic old Hollywood musical. Certainly upon closer inspection, Flower Drum Song. Hunter-Fields, Universal International Pictures. Universal Pictures (1961) (USA) (theatrical), National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1968) (USA) (TV) (original airing).
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Better Luck Tomorrow" (2002)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/12/commentary-better-luck-tomorrow-2002.html
Saturday, December 1, 2007. Commentary "Better Luck Tomorrow" (2002). Really hits close to home for me in terms of its representations of Asian Americans. In high school I definitely saw firsthand the dark side of living up to the “model minority” stereotype in. So it was hard to separate the images I saw in the film from the personalities and lives of my own friends back home. I know that writer/director Justin Lin grew up in the same southern. Cherry Sky Films, Day O Productions Inc., Hudson River ...
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Kieu" (2006)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/12/commentary-kieu-2006.html
Saturday, December 1, 2007. When we first meet the modern day Kieu, she appears to be an independent woman living a simple life alone in. She spends her afternoons shopping for fresh produce and flowers, cooking dinner for herself, riding the bus. Her life is almost so boring that we probably wouldn’t look twice if she were a real person—which is why Kieu. I felt that Ha's choice to do a narrative versus a documentary was actually more provoking with respect to this subject. Though Kieu has escaped.
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige" (1991)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/11/commentary-history-and-memory-for-akiko.html
Friday, November 30, 2007. Commentary "History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige" (1991). Filmmaker Rea Tajiri is well-known for her avant-garde style - so when I watched this film I was prepared me to examine her work within an avant-garde framework, meaning I was prepared to search for abstract meaning in “germinal” images and conceptual film techniques. Though her scrolling script and zooms and pans on still images were certainly powerful, what I found most compelling about History and Memory. Despi...
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Chan is Missing" (1982)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/11/chan-is-missing-1982.html
Friday, November 30, 2007. Commentary "Chan is Missing" (1982). Asks a central question concerning Asian American identity—whether there is one, and to what extent assimilation plays a part in constructing it. This film was very accessible to me in its discussion of race because it portrayed the tension between wanting to retain Chinese culture exclusively or assimilate completely. For instance, while a film like Flower Drum Song. 1961) extols becoming fully American, Chan is Missing.
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Slaying the Dragon" (1988)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/11/commentary-slaying-dragon-1988.html
Friday, November 30, 2007. Commentary "Slaying the Dragon" (1988). Asian Women United, Center for Asian American Media. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Center for Asian American Media. ExEAS - Expanding East Asian Studies. Chasing Chan - Asian American Cinema and Beyond. National Asian American Telecommunications Association. Asian American History Resources Online. Asian American Justice Center. Asian American Journalists Association. Commentary AKA Don Bonus (1995). Commentary American Sons (1995).
asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com
Asian American Film: Commentary | "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" (1987)
http://asianamericanfilm.blogspot.com/2007/12/commentary-who-killed-vincent-chin-1987.html
Saturday, December 1, 2007. Commentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin? It is hard to watch Who Killed Vincent Chin? Without feeling hateful, angry, and powerless. As each minute went on I felt myself getting more frustrated, not only because his murder case was treated so unjustly, but also because I felt ashamed that I had never heard of his story before. At McDonald’s, until he beat Vincent Chin to death there with a baseball bat. That much is pretty clear on its own. Instead of examining who Ebens is as an ...
