TY - JOUR
T1 - Crazy, rich, when Asian
T2 - Yellowface ambivalence and mockery in Crazy Rich Asians
AU - Wong, Terrie Siang Ting
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 National Communication Association.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This essay takes a postcolonial approach to trouble the celebratory notion that Crazy Rich Asians is unequivocal progress for Asian/American media representation. Using textual analysis, the essay reads Asian subjectivities portrayed in the movie in the context of race relations in the United States, in Singapore, and between the United States and Asia. The essay concludes by discussing how yellowface mockery and ambivalence center whiteness in different ways for Asia-Asians and Asian Americans, and it argues for the continued relevance of yellowface theorizations for unpacking representations of Asian/American subjectivities in filmic texts that are produced by, for, and with Asians.
AB - This essay takes a postcolonial approach to trouble the celebratory notion that Crazy Rich Asians is unequivocal progress for Asian/American media representation. Using textual analysis, the essay reads Asian subjectivities portrayed in the movie in the context of race relations in the United States, in Singapore, and between the United States and Asia. The essay concludes by discussing how yellowface mockery and ambivalence center whiteness in different ways for Asia-Asians and Asian Americans, and it argues for the continued relevance of yellowface theorizations for unpacking representations of Asian/American subjectivities in filmic texts that are produced by, for, and with Asians.
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U2 - 10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426
DO - 10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097608752
SN - 1751-3057
VL - 15
SP - 57
EP - 74
JO - Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
JF - Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
IS - 1
ER -