"High Octane Kung Fu Action": Examining Racialization in The 2nd Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and Fantasia '98: Toronto Festival
2000; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/jcs.35.3.138
ISSN1911-0251
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Culture and Media Studies
ResumoThe 2nd Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and Fantasia '98: Toronto Festival as spaces that produce racialization. This essay examines how these festivals operate through reified notions of "Asian" ethnicity and race; a reification that obscures the understanding that "race" and "ethnicity" are both socio-cultural constructions. Using a Foucauldian notion of subjection, or subject formation, this essay shows that these festivals seldom involve themselves in a self-reflexive critique of how or why an "Asian" subjectivity is constituted. The author argues that racialization becomes veiled and aestheticized as it is used to organize the "Asian" film festival.
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