THST 3530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mina Shum, Sandra Oh, Culture Of Asia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Theatre Studies
• Course: THST 3530
• Professor: Paul Salmon

Document Summary

Immigrant films that really widen the scope of canadian film. Critics called (cid:498)living on the hyphen(cid:499) (asian & canadian) Clash of cultures and the attempt at an interface (boundary) To be younger and surrounded with young canadian ppl with different current canadian values. (cid:498)why we didn"t have this brady bunch life(cid:499) Parents want jade and andrew (family friend asian) to get married. Jade aspiring actress but parents think she should keep options open to be a news anchor. Faces discrimination when trying to get into a bar. Meets a canadian (mark) at the bar. Brother (winston) left home and is living with a white girl who they disapprove of. While auditioning for a chinese movie role she cant read the script in. Chinese and is questioned (cid:498)are you even chinese(cid:499) from casting agent.