This course examines cultural, ideological, and political dimensions of
Western screen images of Asians and Asian Americans from two distinct
perspectives: (1) Hollywood's dominant fiction and (2) filmic intervention
by Asian American directors.  We shall cover a long span of historical
periods (1910s-1990s) and a wide variety of issues, ranging from politics of
race and ethnicity, missionary discourse, orientalism and sexual fantasy,
imperialism and humanism, war and memory, cultural exoticism, to gender
performance, myths of ethnic authenticity, multiculturalist discourse, Asian
American identity and filmmaking, and transnational image-making.  Students
are encouraged to bring their experience to bear on current debates and to
become more critical and self-conscious of the politics of representation
and self-representation.

Requirements (EALC E351/CMCL C398):
10%    attendance & active participation in class
10%    1 team project (writing and presentation)
15%    mid-term exam
20%    4 journals (1 double-space page each)
20%    1 term paper (4 double-space pages)
25%    final exam

TEXTBOOKS
Marchetti, Gina.  Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive
Strategies in Hollywood Fiction.  Berkeley: University of California Press,
1993.
Shohat, Ella, and Robert Stam.  Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism
and the Media.  New York: Routledge, 1995.
A Course Pack of other required readings.