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  Marketing Asian Movies To U.S. Audiences

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  Daryll Bowen Georgia State University

  February 18, 2016

  Marketing Asian Movies To U.S. Audiences summer entertainment Martial Arts Cinema East Asian Film ... Festivals Curator's Note   Is the nature of Asian movies similar to that of Latin films in that the ... melodramatic acting? This could be a legitimate reason into why most, if not all Asian movies released in the ...
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  Re: The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

  excellent comments

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  Sunday, January 23, 2011 — 9:52 pm

  cannot run a reasonable tech start up in California without hiring lots of Asians and Asian American of ... both genders to work at it.  Many of my asian female friends from high school now work as project ... head in the sand re: asian female labor in so many ways.  I have since found out that Priscilla Chan, ...
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  We Are Claudia Kishi

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  Megan Connor Indiana University

  November 04, 2022

  We Are Claudia Kishi generation Asian representation identification fans Curator's Note In ... a fully realized and culturally specific Japanese-American character for Asian readers. This ... identificatory pleasure of nuanced Asian representation was rare for girls to experience at this time. Sue Ding’s ...
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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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  Re: Touching the Past (Virtually)

  Grounded in (and Dizzied by) History

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Thursday, September 8, 2011 — 7:02 pm

  clip richly demonstrates the possibilities of imbuing a particular place, though media, with its own ... the possibilities for additional stories in any one spot— Times Square, say—become dizzying and ... which users can develop and add personal content.   I’m thinking of projects, for example, like ...
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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 14, 2008

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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace globalization diaspora South Asian ... transnationalism Asian-American cable original programming India distribution Simply Desi ImaginAsian TV ... Note The featured video clip is from 2007 when Simply Desi, a 3 and ½ hour block of South Asian ...
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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  fantastic responses!

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 7:09 pm

  Thanks, everyone, for some truly insightful and provocative comments. I’m delighted to read all of ... Watchmen)?  I really think there’s something to the visual-to-visual medium here, but I’m not sure what; I’d ... going to try to fake it in the fakest way possible.  To at least gesture toward an answer to your final ...
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  Re: Fred & Ginger & Emergence

  The power of the long take

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Saturday, November 16, 2019 — 2:26 am

  Though I take your point about repeat partnerships growing fossilized, I’m struck by one aspect of this ... functions to document something premeditated yet nonetheless profound. I’m left wondering if our jaded ... ceremony, which sent the celebrity press and social media into a tizzy speculating about their possible ...
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  Asian-American media-themed week

  April 28, 2008 to May 02, 2008
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  New Asian American Documentary and its Archives

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  Celine Parrenas Shimizu San Francisco State University

  May 31, 2017

  New Asian American Documentary and its Archives ''In Focus'' ... ''Cinema Journal'' Curator's Note Through various archives, Asian American documentary ... how much we do not know about Asian diasporic life. Ali Kazimi’s Random Acts of Legacy (2016) finds ...

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