Deconstructing the Industry

Kat P.

This factsheet highlights the development of Asian American cinema which disrupts and expands beyond the racialized and gendered stereotypes of Hollywood films. The factsheet offers key points to challenge the racisms that are reproduced in mainstream media.

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References

Kim, E. (Director). (2011). Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded [Documentary]. Asain Women United. https://webapp.library.uvic.ca/videos/view.php?vfn=Slaying-the-Dragon-Reloaded.mp4

Source Authors

Elaine H. Kim

Keywords

Anti-Asian Racism, Body Politics, Challenge Stereotypes, Constructing 'Race', Creative Activism, Critical Race Theory, Dismantle Structural Racism, Gender as a Social Construct, Identity, Immigration, Interrupting Assumptions, Media and Power, Patriarchy, Racist Stereotyping, Representations and Power, Resilience and Resurgence, Resistant Knowledge, Resisting Racism, White Supremacy

Key Figures

Sylvia Chan-Malik, Yun Suh

Locations

United States

Themes

Activism, Theory