WGS 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Anna May Wong, Nancy Kwan, Lucy Liu

• School: DePaul University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 255
• Professor: Remoquillo

Document Summary

Innocent yet does immoral things: nancy kwan, hypersexualized girlish and wholesome, she places emphasis on visibility of asian women rather than the image she is presenting of them. The bind of being an asian american actress in hollywood: relationship between history, fantasy, and how images are produced, other archetypes, prostitute/whore with a heart of gold, dominatrix/sex queen. Images that always dehumanize complex subjects (64: experience of engaging with those images, triangulation, multidimensional figures, collision between conditions and fantasies. Scurries away" appears physically small: the asian woman is an absent/present, dead/living subject on screen upon whose body race, sex, and gender in colonial narratives are kept open with possibilities for various interpretations. (77, always a mystery. Illiterate: prostitute with a heart of gold, bastard child, somehow still innocent and beautiful. Illegal chinese immigrant: comes to the us for an arranged marriage to a chinese american named. Triangulations of actress, woman, and role: interviews with anna may wong, nancy kwan, and lucy.