...the topic of sexualities ought to be envisioned as a means, not an end, to theorizing about the Asian American experience.
-Dana Takagi

Next Year's Syllabus

Name Ideas: “Asia MEDIAting America”
(combine the following… somehow)

Required texts: Asian Americans and the Media, Ono and Pham (2009), American-Born Chinese (graphic novel by Gene Yang)

Here is the website for the Pitzer class on Asian Americans in the Media for possible film ideas-
http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~mma/teaching/MS100/ms100syllabus.html

Themes
Asian Americans in pop culture and new media
Transnationalism
Cultural exchange

   http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/22/4/415.short
   http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xLmvgTnTYHwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=transnationalism+asian+media&ots=NkD-rnmEOF&sig=VCcsNkfCq5SYlv-Mto-Xk9UikdE#v=onepage&q=transnationalism%20asian%20media&f=false
   http://ejc.sagepub.com/content/5/2/239.short


Representation
Cultural Appropriation
Visual culture
Influence, tension between representations,
Asian American cultural production


Subtopics
1. critical pedagogy

1. visual culture and representation (Ming Ma)
--Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices by Stuart Hall (intro and Ch. 1)
--Related video (lecture by Stuart Hall on representation)
--"Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance" by bell hooks in Black Looks
--"The Persistence of Yellow Peril Discourse" by Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham in Asian Americans in the Media
Music (K-pop, J-pop)

--music videos







--http://thegrandnarrative.com/

Lolita Effect Article http://thegrandnarrative.com/2010/12/16/lolita-effect-korea-sexual-socialization-body-image/
Girls Generation and Occidentalism and Sex
http://thegrandnarrative.com/2010/02/15/girls-generation-korean-sexuality/

--Playing the Race and Sexuality Cards

WIll.I.Am and 2NE1: http://www.theprophetblog.net/will-i-am-to-launch-2ne1-in-the-states
TimothydeLaGhetto2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_uh0ozOf5c&feature=relmfu


Wonder Girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmun5PO54VE
Girls Generation: Gee
Korean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mPqycQ0tQ
Japanese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUhk1hyYJbs
2. history of representations of Asians and Asian Americans in media

(Possible books on Asian Americans in the Media)
Robert G. Lee, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1999. 
Lee identifies six representations of Asian Americans--the pollutant, the coolie worker, the deviant, the yellow peril, the model minority, and the gook--and notes how, when, and why they emerged.
Peter X. Feng, ed., Screening Asian Americans, Rutgers University Press, 2002. Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism, Temple University Press, 2000. Moving The Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts, UCLA Asian 
Darrell Hamamoto & Sandra Liu, eds., 

Russell Leong, ed., 
--theater and film (martial arts films)
http://www.racebending.com/v4/about/what-is-racebending/
film screenings - (mix of contemporary films and older films?)
http://recfreq.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/top-five-asian-american-films-challenge/
reader of film criticism that could accompany films we choose (transnationalism in The Wedding Banquet? "Bad Asians: New Film and Video by Queer Asian American Artists"?)
http://books.google.com/books?id=jRN38BmzsH8C&printsec=frontcover&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
--science fiction
--comedy (Margaret Cho?)
   http://www.elanguage.net/journals/index.php/pragmatics/article/viewArticle/438

Possible comedians to look into:
Aziz Ansari 
Henry Cho 
Margaret Cho 
Bobby Lee 
Dat Phan

Hari Kondabolu


--videogames
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/84/89

--Bollywood (Slumdog Millionaire)
--Interview with Danny Boyle
--Showcasing India Unshining
--independent media
 there are a few films I say in another class that might be good. I think they are at the Pitzer AV office-
HOMECOMING GAME (1970) by Danny Kwan, 20 min.
YELLOW BROTHERHOOD (1970) by Brian Maeda, 10 min.
MANZANAR (1970) by Robert Nakamura, 16 min.
Youtube stars:





http://www.asiaxpress.com/articles/2009/apr/youtube/1.html
http://iamkoream.com/cover-story-youtube-stars/
-Back Dorm Boys - (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBlCtqsat-w)
-Korean History Channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptyzc4BQliY)

-Wong Fu Productions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLJRzuodKo)
-Kevjumba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAbJgXUM4o4)
-David Choi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDTKAHk_T5k)
-Natalie Tran (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0EgDFXsyQs)
-Ryan Higa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLCEwEFCMU)
-HappySlip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3y_hX0noR0)
-Jen Kwok (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9vYZmoqmg)
How is Jen Kwok using YouTube to get her message across?  To what extent can this be interpreted positively or negatively?
-Gunnarolla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCXqOFjsiZs)
-Luan Legacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFpZRDYha4)
-Sam Tsui (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoSTbPt_PI)
-Freddie Wong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYGlWjIKoY4)
-Michelle Phan (http://www.youtube.com/user/michellephan)
--media industry
--spoken word
~listen/watch: kay barrett/adriel luis/skim/I Was Born with Two Tongues/leah lakshmi piepzna-samaras/beau sia/staceyann chin/reggie cabico/Marlon Unas Esguerra/Yellow Rage/Kelly Zen Yie Tsai/Kit Yan/iLL-Literacy
--hip-hop
~listen: Bambu/KIWI/Native Guns/magnetic north
~read: Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Sunaina Maira’s Henna and Hip Hop: The Politics of Cultural Production and the Work of Cultural Studies, Nitasha Tamar Sharma's Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness  
~Watch: Sounds of New Hope
--dance/breakdance
--Breakdance Boys in South Philly
- Jabbawockeez Article
- http://www.bboy.org/forums/word-up/117908-why-there-so-many-asian-b-boys--4.html
YouTube Keyword: Asian Breakdance
--political/activist media

2./3. orientalism
First two sections of the introduction to Edward Said's Orientalism
--blogs
--http://askakorean.blogspot.com/
--Websites
--ModelMinority.com
-- another thing that might work if discussing Model Minority theory could be to watch the film "My America (Honk if You Love Buddha)" by Renee Tajima-Pena. Or that might work better under cultural hybridity?
3./end also? cultural hybridity
4. comics, manga, webcomics
-Interview with Gene Yang: http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/2007/03/american_born_c.html
-American Born Chinese
- Secret Identities; The Asian American Superhero Anthology (Selections)
--Manga is Here to Stay
- (optional) Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1
--Interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley
5. TV shows (Power Rangers, Pokemon, Avatar)
6. anime
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213488?seq=13&Search=yes&searchText=anime&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Danime%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=21&ttl=5866&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null
"The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism" by Anne Allison, from Mechademia vol.1
"When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime" by Hiromi Mizuno, from Mechademia vol.2


 Ideas
  • speaker suggestions in the syllabus (Kip Fulbeck, Ming Ma, Prof. Tran, Stan Sakai, Skim, Gene Yang [geneyang.com, contact Kate Kubert-Puls])
  • field trip ideas (Tuesday Night Cafe)
  • incorporation of watching films, clips, reading comics, etc.
  • inclusivity of a wide variety of Asian and Asian American identities
  • weekly film screening?
  • transnational influences from both directions
  • music video of the week
  • do we still want to do a blog? some sort of media project?
  • blog could serve as a space to post links and analyze them – look at current media
  • focus on Asian American cultural production (make sure it's not all about representations *of* Asian Americans)
  • Have a weekly blog post (in addition to responses to readings) on a "keyword" or topic; it would be a quick but effective exercise
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