TY - BOOK ID - 124259287 TI - Whitewashing the movies PY - 2021 SN - 1978808666 1978808631 9781978808669 9781978808645 197880864X 9781978808652 1978808658 9781978808621 1978808623 9781978808638 PB - New Brunswick DB - UniCat KW - Asian Americans in motion pictures. KW - White people in motion pictures. KW - film, films, movies, movie, white, whitewashing, Asian actors, asian, asian characters, asian actresses, media, activist, activism, white actors, Asian Americans, Ghost in the Shell, Aloha, privilege, White identities, AsianAmerican stories, China, US-China co-productions, Whiteness, media studies, White racial hegemony, AsianAmerican representation, Hawai’i, White China, Kim Jong Un, Whitewashing anime, Transnational, White masculine heroism, The Great Wall, Outcast, Enter the Warrior’s Gate, 47 Ronin, The Interview, The Impossible. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:124259287 AB - Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters. To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories. ER -