Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Yellowface : Asian whitewashing and racism in Hollywood : a history of Asian representation on the Hollywood screen / Wichita Films & OCS present with the participation of Histoire & Kali Pictures ; a film by Clara Kuperberg & Julia Kuperberg.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Wichita Films, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 0

Summary:

The attack on Pearl Harbor on the seventh of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered WW Two. More than 110,000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. With the arrival of the Cold War, the enemy image had to change quickly, and Hollywood obliged. Clara and Julia Kuperberg found the right interview partners in Joseph McBride, film critic; Nancy Wang Yuen, author of "Reel Inequality"; Tamlyn Tomita, actress, and Dan Akira, specialist of Japanese film history, to show how strong an influence the silver screen has on society.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Asians in motion pictures -- History.

Racism in motion pictures -- History.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Kuperberg, Clara, film director.