Film and Fabrication: How Hollywood determines how we SEE Colorism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783845424279)

If how we are treated is determined by how we are SEEN then the question in order is what filters the eye? With wide access to cable, boosting entertainment networks and 'Dream of Californication', Hollywood Films are now the major factor of how cultural identities are re/set. This paper shows that the representation of Asians in mainstream Hollywood is still a sensitive terrain of cultural collide as the Hollywood films continue to work as a mechanism to reinforce Colorism. But how films fabricate who's who? Why do audiences give in? How body politics is integrated? What are the latest avenues of Asian/ body at odd stereotypes? When wrapped with 'popular' stuffs and technological might, is there any resistance possible? Find out.

Author: Ahmed Nawshaba
ISBN-10: 3845424273
ISBN-13: 9783845424279
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2012
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d