Topic

• ❑ Three common images
  • ❑ Yellow Peril/Evil Genius
  • ❑ Charlie Chan
  • ❑ Madame Butterfly
• ❑ Three approaches to analysis
  • ❑ Content analysis (images)
    • ❑ Yellow Peril
      • ❑ Mysticism + western knowledge
      • ❑ sexual predator
        • ❑ as literal rape or as rape of W. civilization
      • ❑ Spies/subversive
      • ❑ Current media images:
        • ❑ Japan's technical superiority
        • ❑ N. Korea in axis of evil
        • ❑ Pearl Harbor
    • ❑ Charlie Chan
      • ❑ asexual
      • ❑ good citizen
      • ❑ "good parts" of "Asian culture"
    • ❑ Madame Butterfly
      • ❑ Exotic/fair skinned
      • ❑ subservient/geisha
  • ❑ Ideological content
    • ❑ Orientalism (Edward Said)
      • ❑ East/West as binary/opposite
        • ❑ East as exotic, inscrutable, feminine, superstitious
        • ❑ west as open, masculine, rationalist
      • ❑ Homogenizing of both east and west
    • ❑ Controlling images
      • ❑ internalization
      • ❑ who gets to represent whom
      • ❑ politics of representation
  • ❑ Institution (Hollywood)
    • ❑ audience taste
    • ❑ mass appeal
    • ❑ role segregation
    • ❑ stratification
    • ❑ delineation
      • ❑ hegemony
      • ❑ common sense