Meet next class at 9:30 a.m.! (and put your clocks forward one hour on Sunday!)
Reading:
- Ang, Ien. (2005) Multiculturalism.
- Minh-Ha Pham, “The Asian Invasion (of Multiculturalism) in Hollywood (543-564) Common Culture Reader (handout). For those who weren’t in class to get the handout, I’ve placed the remaining copies in my box in the English dept. on the 3rd floor. Don’t skip this reading — please go get it.
- “Asian ‘American Idol’: Stereotype or Star?”
- Watch: William Hung’s “She Bang – on American Idol”
For this blog response, discuss your thoughts on how issues of multiculturalism (as discussed by the readings) seem to be present within the film we’ve started to watch in class (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Do you agree or disagree with some of the arguments presented by Minh-Ha Pham’s article? Why or why not? What about Ien Ang’s article on multiculturalism? In other words, would Ang and Pham be in agreement? why or why not?
No specific questions this time — just a free-flow discussion on the issues presented and their applicability to the film we’ve started watching in class.
