David C Oh

Whitewashing the Movies

Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular attention of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Including movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha, media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans. The purpose of this book is to theorize the popularly used concept of “whitewashing” in stories that subjectify White identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781978808621
• ISBN-10: 1978808623
• Artikelnr.: 60213056

Autorenporträt

DAVID C. OH is an associate professor of communication arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Whitewashing Romance in Hawai’i: Aloha
2 White China Experts, Asian American Twinkies: Shanghai Calling and
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
3 White Grievance, Heroism, and Postracist, Mixed-Race Inclusion in 47
Ronin
4 Satire and the Villainy of Kim Jong-un: The Interview
5 White Survival in Southeast Asia: No Escape and The Impossible
6 Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution
7 Transnational Coproduction and the Ambivalence of White Masculine
Heroism: The Great Wall, Outcast, and Enter the Warriors Gate
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index