Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding
Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists
and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White
actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost
in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the
concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White
identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters.
To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book
analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent
production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the
book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project
of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to
contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by
theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in
media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of
Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories.
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