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"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"--

Asian Americans in motion pictures. --- Ethnicity in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Whites in motion pictures. --- History --- History

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This study is invested with the cultural work of Irishness in US-American popular culture. It is the first to offer as broad of a survey of Irish-American-themed cinema and television as 72 films and 11 television series, ranging from relatively unknown independent productions to box office hits such as The Departed. Thereby, several clusters of negotiating Irishness are identified and illustrated by zooming in at paradigmatic texts. Schein combines approaches from social psychology, gender and cultural studies to illustrate the discursive construction of Irishness and reveal the intersectional character of identifications. Irish-American identity on screen is inextricably connected to discourses on ethnicity, class, race and, most importantly, gender since it proves to be almost exclusively associated with male experience. The book contributes new insights into the workings of popular culture by critically interrogating these constructions of Irishness and exposing its appropriation in engaging contentious issues in US-American culture. The analysis reveals that Irish liminality enables the envisioning of a more innocent version of citizenship and facilitates the reaffirmation of traditional gender roles and identities. Irish-American-themed movies and television shows thus counteract a deconstruction or undoing of gender and ethnicity in the wake of postmodern and poststructural unrest and evince the tenacity and public currency of essentialist identifications.

Irish Americans in motion pictures --- Sex role in motion pictures --- Social classes in motion pictures --- Ethnicity in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Television programs

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Motion pictures --- Racism --- Minorities in the motion picture industry --- Ethnicity in motion pictures. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. --- Asians in motion pictures. --- History

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The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology. In attempting to do more than merely identify harmful stereotypes, research on 'films and race' appropriates ideas from post-structuralist theory. But on those platforms, the field takes intellectual and political positions that place its anti-racist efforts at an impasse. While presenting theoretical ideas in an accessible way, Gerald Sim's historical materialist approach uniquely triangulates well-known work by Edward Said with the Neo-Marxian writing about film by Theodor Adorno and Fredric Jameson. The Subject of Film and Race takes on topics such as identity politics, multiculturalism, multiracial discourse, and cyborg theory, to force film and media studies into rethinking their approach, specifically towards humanism and critical subjectivity. The book illustrates theoretical discussions with a diverse set of familiar films by John Ford, Michael Mann, Todd Solondz, Quentin Tarantino, Keanu Reeves, and others, to show that we must always be aware of capitalist history when thinking about race, ethnicity, and films.

Minorités --- Racisme --- Ethnicité --- Minorities in motion pictures. --- Racism in motion pictures. --- Ethnicity in motion pictures. --- Au cinéma. --- Minorités --- Ethnicité --- Au cinéma.

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Hollywood has recently devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, while previously marginal identities have come into prominence. The authors examine the issues these developments raise, bringing together debates in identity politics with film studies.

Motion pictures --- Gender identity in motion pictures --- Geslachtsidentiteit in de film --- Identité sexuelle dans le cinéma --- Minorities in films --- Minorities in motion pictures --- Role selon le sexe dans le cinéma --- Sex role in motion pictures --- Sexuele rolpatronen in de film --- Film --- United States --- Sex role in motion pictures. --- Ethnicity in motion pictures. --- History. --- United States of America