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The producers of Who Killed Vincent Chin? turned the camera on their own families to make this innovative documentary on ethnic stereotypes. Clips from Hollywood movies, from a vintage silent film to Breakfast at Tiffany s, reveal nearly a century of disparaging images of Asians. These images are ju...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Choy, Christine
Other Authors: Tajima-Pena, Renee, Thai, Quynh
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1991.
Series:Filmakers Library online.
Subjects:
Asian Americans.
Asians > United States.
Minorities in motion pictures.
Asian
Américains d'origine asiatique.
Asiatiques > États-Unis.
Minorités au cinéma.
Asian Americans
Asians
Minorities in motion pictures
United States
Documentary.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Streaming videos.
documentary film.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:The producers of Who Killed Vincent Chin? turned the camera on their own families to make this innovative documentary on ethnic stereotypes. Clips from Hollywood movies, from a vintage silent film to Breakfast at Tiffany s, reveal nearly a century of disparaging images of Asians. These images are juxtaposed with portraits of the Choys, an immigrant, working class family, and the Tajimas, a fourth-generation middle class California family. Seeing the efforts of these families to establish themselves in America makes the celluloid images seem both laughable and sad.
Physical Description:1 online resource (29 min.)
Playing Time:00:28:40
Audience:For High School; College; Adult audiences.
Awards:Asian/Pacific American Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, 1991
Juror's Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, 1991