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  Lucid Dream: Randall Okita's THE LOCKPICKER and Asian American Narrative Films

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  Valerie Soe San Francisco State University

  May 23, 2017

  Lucid Dream: Randall Okita's THE LOCKPICKER and Asian American Narrative Films Valerie Soe ... The Lockpicker Randall Okita narrative film Independent Filmmaking Asian American Media Curator's ... (http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/22/movies/a-film-festival-focuses-on-gener-asian-x.html), following an uptick that year in narrative feature films by Asian Americans. Since that time ...
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  Whitewashing (and) Asian American Audiences

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  LeiLani Nishime University of Washington

  May 20, 2017

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  Whitewashing (and) Asian American Audiences whitewashing Ghost in the Shell Asian American Media ... comments, predictably, criticized May and Tom for assuming that the cartoon character was or should be Asian ... in the sustained media exclusion of Asian-appearing heroes. Indeed, the uproar over the casting for ...
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  Superheroes and Racial Shapeshifting: Encountering Sanjay’s Super Team

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  May 23, 2017

  Representation Asian American Media Curator's Note Sanjay's Super Team was nominated for best animated ... narrative. Instead of being a passive recipient of TV stories, Sanjay creates an Asian American Super team ... from and pays homage to the cultural and religious practices of Sanjay’s father. As a form of Asian ...
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  My Sister Swallowed the Zoo and Chinese International Student Filmmakers in the U.S.

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  Brian Hu San Diego State University

  May 23, 2017

  Filmmakers International Students China Asian American Media Curator's Note For the past decade, Chinese ... conversations. But just as Asian Americans have for over a century, Chinese international students are finding ... from the PRC, as well as from the pan-ethnic politics and the cross-cultural genres of Asian American ...