HUM 320 : Asians in Hollywood

Description: The focus of this  course is on the filmic representations of Asia and Asians in Hollywood cinema. In studying films from the early 1900s to the current Asian “invasion” of Hollywood, we will locate these cultural representations  within the history of Asian immigration in the United States, and examine how American global adventurism has spawned racial discourses that helped produce these representations. Our study will also be informed by readings on anti- Orientalist criticism, Asian American politics, and critical essays on the various Asian national cinemas that contribute to popular cinema in America. Film analysis in this course  will cover the works of directors as diverse as D. W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg,  Cecil DeMille, Joshua Logan, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou ,  Chen Kaige, Wayne Wang, Kayo Hatta, Feng Xiaogang ,  David Cronenberg, Alice Wu, Mira Nair, and Quentin Tarantino.

For more information about the Film Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, please contact April Miller

Office: Ross Hall 1180D Phone: (970) 351-2851

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