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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 05, 2007

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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV youth culture transnational South Asian promo MTV India ... not South Asians but of South Asia. People of South Asian origin in the United States commonly refer ... one's identity as South Asian but also as being "outside South Asia". As the young man reminds ...
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  The World in Action

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  Mark Gallagher University of Nottingham

  August 11, 2010

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  mode’s mission of global saturation. To grow its East Asian markets, Hollywood regularly casts Asian or ... Asian-American actors: Jackie Chan in The Karate Kid (coproduced by the China Film Group and with the more ...
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  Zoom, Cinema, and the Transnational Q&A

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  Brad Limov University of Texas at Austin

  May 10, 2021

  spring in a row. Indie Meme has been organizing Q&As with South Asian filmmakers that would not have ... been possible pre-pandemic. While virtual Q&As within theater spaces were common in the past, such ... possibilities emerge for not just sustaining communities, but bridging them in new ways. It is essential that we ...
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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  September 05, 2012

  2 comments

  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s? youth culture transnational radicalism race popular culture multiracial kung fu hip hop cowboy colonialism breaking breakdance b-boy 1970s Curator's Note We should consider popular 1970s films as pref ...