Commodifying Asian Aesthetics and Eliminating Asian Bodies: Misrepresentations of Asianness in Science Fiction Film and Television
Description
This work examines three common practices—yellowface in Cloud Atlas (2012), whitewashing in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and absence in Firefly (2002)—employed in popular science fiction that represent Asianness and disregard the Asian body. Though the creators purport to have progressive ideals at the center of their production choices, their works call on Techno-Orientalist and Orientalist tropes and divorce them from the Asian body, implicitly continuing the Orientalist argument of Western supremacy even in representing Asianness.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2017-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Tse, Kassidy Laurane
- Thesis director: Miller, April
- Committee member: Rondilla, Joanne
- Contributor (ctb): Department of English
- Contributor (ctb): School of International Letters and Cultures
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College