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SoSe 17: From Yellowphobia to Yellowphilia Onscreen

Paul Thierbach

Kommentar

There is no shortage of exoticized Asian (American) female love interests for (European) American male suitors in Hollywood films. Since the U.S.-neo-imperialist wars in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, Asian (American) women have been fetishized in American popular visual culture. It may not just be a coincidence that, according to the 2010 marriage statistics of the U.S. Census Bureau, European (American)-Asian (American) marriages by far outnumber any other interracial marriages – and three-quarters of them involve a European (American) husband and an Asian (American) wife. In the light of this, popular audiovisual texts depicting this type of interracial relationship seem charged with particular significance. In this seminar, we will watch and discuss a number of feature films released between the years 1910 and 2010. The aim is to trace the evolution of American Orientalism on screen. To that end, we practice film analysis: Taking media specificity into account, considering the historical context of production, as well as analyzing characters outside a moralistic framework but within the narrative structure and the representational ecology. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 10:00 - 12:00 14 Termine

Di, 18.04.2017 10:00 - 12:00

Dozenten:
Paul Thierbach