[Commlist] New Book: Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure & White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture

Book announcement: Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure & White 
Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture, Rutgers University Press

/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.

For more information, please see: 
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/whitewashing-the-movies/9781978808621 
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/whitewashing-the-movies/9781978808621> 


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