Chinese American Cinema Today

Year 1995, Issue: 2, 13 - 19, 01.10.1995

Douglas W. Cooper

Abstract

One of the major events in the American film industry today is the emergence of a new Chinese-American cinema. Its advent heralds a major corrective to Hollywood's stereotypical minority images and allows minority film-makers themselves to decide on their own image. For, Chinese-Americans well know that the way they are shown in the media often determines the way they are treated in society

References

• Jones, Dorothy B. The Portrayal of China and India on the American Screen, 1896-1955: The Evolution of Chinese and Indian Themes, Locales, and Characters as Portrayed on the American Screen. Cambridge, MA: Center for International Studies, MIT, 1955. 28-36.