Cosmopolitan pleasures and affects; or why are we still talking about yellowface in twenty-first-century cinema?: The crisis of representation and interactive documentary as an agent of change
It is now widely acknowledged that the postracial fantasies ushered in by Barack Obama’s two-term election success are now in tatters. Yet debates on yellowface casting practices in contemporary Hollywood (also said to have evolved into “whitewashing” practices), in such films as The Last Airbender...
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University College Cork
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media |
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| Online Access: | http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue14/HTML/ArticleChan.html |