MACS 100 Study Guide - Better Luck Tomorrow, Model Minority, Eric Schlosser

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Media and Cinema Studies
• Course: MACS 100
• Professor: Mobley

Document Summary

Study guide for intro to popular movies and tv shows. Better luck tomorrow filmmaker justin lin presents a strikingly unconventional perspective that marks a notable departure from the identity politics that characterized asian american cinema for 20 years. Lin succeeds in cleverly violating the audience"s expectations about cinematic representations of asian american cinema. He says it is to simply redefine what asian american means because of identity issues. A polished, acerbic, seriously skewed coming-of-age drama about a group of suburban high school teens whose extracurricular criminal careers subvert the asian american model minority myth. Roger ebert criticizes the film as being empty and amoral for asian americans. Better luck tomorrow caught the attention of filmgoers for its use of asian american actors and the ways in which the film both relied on and satirized the myth of asians as. Coined in the new york times magazine by sociologist william peterson to describe.