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May 5, 2022 · Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood: Directed by Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg. With Joseph McBride, Nancy Wang Yuen, Tamlyn Tomita, Dan Akira. A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
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- Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
- 2022-05-05
Feb 25, 2023 · More than 110, 000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. Hollywood was quick to react with films from T ...more. The attack on Pearl...
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May 4, 2022 · Directors Julia and Clara Kuperberg’s tough-to-swallow (but more than fair) documentary Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood might have come out in 2019, but it just hit the HBO Max streaming service this week, and should be considered a must-watch for cinephiles of all levels.
Jun 24, 2023 · The attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered ...more. Until today, whitewashing was a racist tradition in Hollywood. As was...
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The history of Asian American roles and the casting of those roles in Hollywood are documented through archival footage and interviews with contemporary crit...
Aug 20, 2018 · Among the first appearances of yellowface in film was in a work by D.W. Griffith, best known for The Birth of a Nation, a racially-charged epic featuring characters in blackface that became...
Until today, whitewashing is a racist tradition in Hollywood, and as with "blackface", "yellowface" was used in Hollywood as a propaganda tool and manifestation of the racism. YELLOWFACE is a historical look at how Asian culture has evolved through on screen representation in Hollywood.
