Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond HollywoodPosted in Arts, Asian Diaspora, Live Events, New Media, United States, Women on 2010-01-24 20:01Z by Steven |
Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood
Thursday, 2010-01-28, 16:00-17:30 PST (Local Time)
University of California, Berkeley
Center for Race & Gender
691 Barrows Hall
Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Join Prof. Elaine Kim for a screening and discussion of the new 30 minute documentary film, Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood (working title), a sequel to the 1988 documentary, Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film.
Over the past two decades, the world has changed dramatically as global capitalism moves production, people, technologies, and ideas over borders around the globe. New formations and new communities have emerged everywhere. Now there are many more Asians from diverse backgrounds living all over the world, including in the U.S. American people are becoming more racially mixed than ever, and old notions of race, gender, and identity have been called into question. How does today’s Hollywood reflect these changes? What is new and what’s been recycled? What interventions are being made in Asian American independent films and new media?
View the PDF flyer here.