Asian Cinem The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Asian Cinema

Asians have been invisible in Hollywood lead roles. There have been many situations where another race has played an Asian role. When Asians do land a lead role it is very common to see pay difference between other ethnicity lead roles. Asian’s are very fimilar with service roles and not lead roles in films. Asian actors are still only a one percent of Hollywood’s leading roles. “According to a study that University of California, Los Angeles did out of the top 100 films in 2015, 49 of those films did not consist an Asian character and zero leading roles went to Asians (Levin 2017).” Asians seem be invisible when auditioning for lead roles.

Asian American actors and actresses are portrayed in Hollywood movies as always being the silent and yielding foreign victims to social injustice and prejudice. Whether or not these depictions are true, they are nonetheless stereotypes that Hollywood producers have come up with. According to the US Census in the year 2000, Asian Americans make up 4.2% of the entire American population, and knowing that most Asian Americans live on the west and east coast of the United States, many Americans living in central parts of this country have not really been exposed to any Asian Americans. Because of this fact, it is highly probable that most Americans get their exposure to the Asian American lifestyle only through television and movies. Even if

Diversity in films is important because representation matters. Viewers are drawn to shows with ethnically diverse lead cast members. Mostly all viewers love to watch shows that reflect and relate to their own experiences. Reddigari, a freelance writer, also expresses the question of why we lack diversity in films. “Hollywood has been producing inspiring films intended to capture the beauty, joy and sorrow in everyday life. As much as we love our favorite movies, we can’t help but notice that many of them fail to capture the life experiences of all moviegoers, leaving the voices of millions of Americans from diverse backgrounds underrepresented” (This Tumblr Shows the Startling Lack of Diversity in Film). Diversity in films is an important topic in society because it represents equality and people of color to look up to.

Since the first half of the 19th century, Asian Americans have been involved in the media industry when the original “Siamese Twins” Chang and Eng Bunker became naturalized citizens of America. Roles in television and other media were scarce for Asian Americans, only available roles were very stereotypical. Early Asian American actors such as Bruce Lee and Sessue Hayakawa could only land stereotypical supporting roles in prime time television. While minority actors have progress through the years, Asian Americans in the media remains an issue. The misrepresentation of Asians Americans that continues the tendency of stereotypes and type casting. To this day, Asians Americans take on roles that tends to portray the stereotypical roles. Asian Americans becomes easily targeted and exploited from such representation. “Model Minority” Stereotype is consistently express through advertising and primetime television; Asians being nerdy: having type casted into professional roles ignoring real values and cultures, Asian women: seen as hypersexual, erotic, cunning and dangerous, Asian men: dangerous, unfriendly, master of martial arts, undesirable male partners and weak. Media representation of Asian Americans in America’s media history, continue to influence and reproduce dominant Americentric impressions, rather than the true authentic depiction of Asian American culture and behavior. Americentric stereotypes of Asian American women and men has led to limited roles of Asian Americans

While watching the Ethnic Notions movie and reading the Collins’ essay, some of the images that made an impact are the images of the brute, and mammies, as describe by Collins. Throughout the early and middle of the 20th century, black people have been portrayed negativity in movies, TV shows, as well as books and this gave people the notion that black people acting like this in real life. People’s perceptions of black people were based on what they see in the media, but these perceptions can be changed with time. As I was watching the documentary, I can recall the disturbing ways that black people were portrayed and the fact that this has been happening for a long period of time. The portrayed of the brute for the African American male has been depicted as far back as the movie

Instead of Hollywood casting actual Asian- Americans, Hollywood chooses to cast white actors and use a makeup effect called “yellow face”. The most popular depictions of Asians were fictional characters referred to as “Charlie Chan” and “Fu Manchu”. This method is still used today and has dated back from 1915. When an Asian American gained a role it was usually a martial artist or a racially demeaning role.

     Asian Americans only make up a small percent of the American population. Even more significant is that this percentage live mostly on the west and east coasts of mainland United States and Hawaii; leaving the rest of the American population to most likely get their exposures to Asians through television and movies. However the exposure they have receive throughout the history of cinematography has been hardly flattering. Throughout the course of history Asians in film have been portrayed as evil or the "yellow peril" as described by others. If Asians are not being classified as evil in this picture then they are most likely the comic relief, with their lack of coordination or grasp of the English

This class helped me realize how ignorant I really was about the Asian American culture as well as the Native American culture. I generally believed that I was more culturally sound than I actually am. I believed that I knew more about these cultures than I really did and was shocked to realize that I fed into some of the stereotypes. I knew that Asian Americans did well academically because their parents valued education and had them study more than their peers, however I did not realize that culturally boys were expected to succeed more academically than girls were. I believed that girls were equally held up to a standard as boys were. Watching the film clips related to Asians and Asian Americans was an eye opening experience.

In the essay “Hollywood Warms to Asian Movies, American-Style” Renee Graham talks about how Hollywood remakes Asian movies. There are many advantages and disadvantages of these remakes. One advantage is that the remakes bring attention to the original version. Another advantage is that people in America get exposure to foreign films. A disadvantage is that these remakes are not as good as the original ones.

Communication is the mode by which we interact. It is the story of our lives and how we transfer knowledge from one generation to the next. There are many modes and methods of communication that helps bring together individuals from various walks of life. From the verbal to the non-verbal, the methods are as diverse as the people in our country. Communication can be facilitated through speech, music, and even through the visual arts. As a Radio-Television-Film major, I would utilize the skills acquired to become a symbol of diversity in the media. There is an increasing awareness that Hollywood lacks diversity. A few years ago, I started a YouTube channel in an attempt to rectify this situation. Recently, I and a group of fellow African Americans

The doors opened. Hours and hours of waiting have finally reached its pivotal point. I rushed in like the rest of the movie watchers. The sheer joy is unbearable because I waited so long for an adaptation of my favorite anime, Ghost in the Shell, a classic Japanese anime. I couldn’t wait to see what Asian actor the directors casted for Motoko Kusanagi, the Asian law enforcement officer who has gone through technological buffs to combat crime. As the curtains finally part and the lights dimmed, the large screen brightened. I smiled as the movie started. However, that smile quickly disappeared. There was something wrong with the first scene. Scarlett

I have been asked “Where do you come from?” many times, and still I struggle to come up with a definite answer. It’s usually one of the first introductory questions someone asks and I always respond with my own set of questions. Do you mean where I was last? California. Where I have lived the longest? Germany. Where I was born? Panama. . . . Oh, is that what you meant? Calling myself a citizen of the world is not at all farfetched—rather, it’s an accurate descriptor of who I am.

The American film industry needs to step up its ‘game’ if it wants to succeed as an international player. Create new genres, TV series, increase publicity and advertising to gain back its international viewers. The American film industry should search for new and upcoming talented producers who can bring a whole new meaning to the global organisation. It has to reach out to all

After watching the screen cast on South Asian American, I was surprised by of the marriage between Punjabi (Indian) and Mexican women. As my knowing, the South Asian or specific Indian, they were marriage by their parent arrangement, and they don’t want marry people different ethic, or different religious.And on the video, I saw the dancers were mixed two cultural, it so amazing.

As cultural identity being questioned in global screen due to the influences of transnational cinema and Diasporas in different places, this clip question further the possibilities in future transnational cinema. Through the emergence of cinema styles, all films are to be considered transnational. This essay will argue that transnational cinema could be emerging to a new level in the film industry. The clip provided with the essay explores the potential of transnational films with the context of films studied included in this subject.