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- According to the BBC, films in which white actors have played other races include all genres. African-American roles and roles of Asian descent have been whitewashed, as well as characters from the ancient world in the genre of classical and mythological films.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewashing_in_film
Aug 20, 2018 · When white actor Warner Oland replaced Asian lead actors in the Charlie Chan films of the 1930s, the films skyrocketed to success, making it hard to argue with the results.
Apr 29, 2016 · Hollywood continues to defend whitewashing with the argument that no Asian actors are “bankable” and yet, no-name white actors get cast in star-making roles all the time (see: Chris Pine,...
May 3, 2016 · From Doctor Strange to Ghost in a Shell, Hollywood has a bad a habit of casting white actors in Asian roles
- Eliana Dockterman
Aug 8, 2018 · Some Asian-American protesters felt the film was an example of yellowface — a term referencing when a white actor dons “Asian-esque” stage makeup and costuming to play an Asian character.
- Jenn Fang
- Orientalism Retold
- Stereotypes and Market
- Where to from Now?
Almost half a century has passed since Edward Said traced an inevitable connection between simplistic views of races (or ethnicities) and racism. His term “Orientalism” sums up the attitudes of those who The urgency of Said’s critique is palpable in Lu’s energetic framing of current views of Asia. Lu’s novel shows how politics and the economics of ...
Apart from the link between politics and what we get to see on the big screen, Lu reveals that whitewashing Asians is profitable. People pay to see foreignness repackaged as stereotypes – and thus rendered virtually invisible. This has been going on since the early days of cinema. In the 1930s, it was Boris Karloff who played the evil genius Fu Man...
Lu reminds us that a lack of multi-dimensional representation on the screen is harmful. JK Jr, the actor cast as Brood Empire’s initial lead, reflects on the shared experience of Asian people in Western countries: I hope Siang Lu’s novel will spark readers to reject stereotypes – to instead discover an interest in the countless different ways of be...
Jun 6, 2015 · Hollywood has been accused of whitewashing Asians for decades. In the early days of big budget film, directors put eye and cheek prosthetics on actors to approximate Asian facial features.
Mar 1, 2022 · Shyamalan’s 2010 adaptation cast white actors in roles that fans had always read as mythologically Asian or Inuit, leading to an outcry and protests well documented in Lori Kido Lopez’s earlier Asian American Media Activism.
