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  1. Oct 2023
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  3. Apr 2023
    1. These films showcase the “Oriental” look, a race devised entirely byWestern popular culture.

      filmmakers didn't care about authenticity, they wanted to portray Asians in the way culture viewed them, as different and alien

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    1. was a box office hit, grossing over $238 million worldwide.

      Crazy rich asians was an all asian cast, and a box office hit grossing over $238 million all over the world

    2. With this rise in Asian cinema, we are seeing a greater exploration of Asian cultures and their stories, as well as more collaborations between Hollywood and Asian filmmakers.

      so it seems with the rise of Asian cinema, there is the belief that Asian stories are being represented and more Asian film makers are being involved

    1. a contrast betweenwhite and Asian in terms of belonging and foreignness in the West continues to beconsistently reproduced.

      condemning the hollywood industry to continuously producing and making movies that promote harmful stereotypes of asians

    2. sians and Pacific Islanders, representing 3.8% of the population, were cast in 2.5% ofroles (SAG, 2004).

      fact from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), showing the lack of representation of many racialized groups in tv and theater between 2002-2003.

    3. beinginitiated by Hollywood film into an imagined world in which demographics are distortedand notions of belonging and foreignness are presented in ways that reflect theEurocentric worldview dominating Hollywood and the West.

      those who are uneducated in how the Hollywood system works, are being introduced to ideas that are incorrect about different demographics other than the white demographic.

  4. Mar 2023
    1. common assumption that Asian American perspectives don’t matter, due to Orientalist notions always positioning us as “other” in the West, or to a belief that Asian Americans really don’t suffer from institutional racism and therefore there is no real need to check Eurocentrism in this regard.

      it's sad that this is still a problem, that even with Asian American movies and films being celebrated, we're still labeled as other.

    2. Eurocentrism

      eurocentrism: a worldview, mindset, or rhetorical orientation that centers European, or White, ways of knowing as sole, central, or superior to all others

    3. Nor do I feel like anyone, regardless of race, gender, or any host of identities and intersections therein, are required to love or even like this film. Art is subjective.

      even if people didn't like it, they should be respectful to those who did, and take a second to think about why it is so meaningful to others

    4. One great night doesn’t erase nearly a century of the Academy’s exclusion

      clearly there is so much growth and progress to be made, yet this movie did have a big impact, and this is the way that movie should be recognized and appreciated, by being celebrated

    5. And even if it does get any nods for Oscars, I remember there’s the long history of the Academy recognizing films with majority Asian casts without honoring any of the actual Asian and Asian American cast members

      this is important to note that even recently credit is not being given where credit is due, with movies like Parasite

    6. The answer, of course, is kindness, and embracing the worst parts of yourself, and learning to do that for others in your life that you love, and saying that you are sorry.

      a strong message, not catered to anyone specifically, justa powerful way of looking at life

    7. I had gone to so many movies in decades of being a fan of film, with zero expectations that it would heal me.

      he was expecting a movie that would distract him from what was going on in his life, not thinking it would have an affect on him

    1. regarded as Asian cinema, continuing the idea of Asian American filmmakers being separatefrom the Hollywood monopoly.

      instead of being called American cinema, it was called Asian cinema, even though the filmmakers were Asian American. another way to separate and "other"

    2. Vincent Chin losthis life to auto shop workers who disliked Asian Americans partially due to negativeperceptions of Asian economic superpowers.

      real life examples that are visceral to the reader to show it's not just talk. These perceptions are toxic and deadly

    3. VisualCommunication Movements of the early 1970s, which sought to tell true stories of AsianAmericans.

      there was a movement in the 1970s which was to represent Asian Americans correctly.

    4. Thesemovies not only exhibit Asian customs through a colonialist lens but also misappropriatedcultures while simultaneously using them to portray white protagonists and heroes

      So white actors and the white agenda capitalized on Bruce Lee's revolution by making movies that show Asian culture and customs, but made for white main characters, and get the cultures wrong

    5. the film is controlled by the white men in it

      even though the movie has a setting in an Asian country, and the entire story's "backbone is about Asian commitment to the advanced project [the theme of the movie]" it still caters to the white men in it.

    6. model minority myth

      what is the model minority myth? is it a term that i can search on google? maybe this is the definition: Asian Americans since they are portrayed as a minority with noble characteristics

    7. ndividual cultures, and peoples are frequently mixed together as a singular other through the Western perspective

      Aladdin is a harmful example of making Asians a grouping of one, when there are multiple cultures. the Western view groups all of them together as "a singular other"

    8. Representationof the East as exotic, foreign, illogical, and different stems from orientalist ideas which are common in Western media.

      the representation of the east, "other" is different and separate.

    9. often crafted to fit the gaze of white audiences

      this seems true for so many movies. rarely do we see movies that express and share a different culture besides white stories.