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Renee Tajima Reads Asian Images in American Films: Charlie Chan Go Home
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Paper Tiger Television
Media Type:Videocassette
Release Date:1984
Audience:Higher Education
Secondary Education
Running Time:28 min.
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Gender and Women's Studies
Subheading:Identity
Women
Region:East/West Relations
Immigration/Diaspora



Abstract:

"This video traces the images of Asian women in Hollywood productions from Geisha girl to dragon lady. Film and television help to promote the myth of Asian women as passive, thoughtless beings available for sexual consumption or as obedient servants. Renee Tajima is co-director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"




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