{"id":506617,"date":"2022-11-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/academy-museum-to-present-monthlong-hollywood-chinese-screening-series\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:00:00","slug":"academy-museum-to-present-monthlong-hollywood-chinese-screening-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/academy-museum-to-present-monthlong-hollywood-chinese-screening-series\/","title":{"rendered":"#Academy Museum to Present Monthlong \u2018Hollywood Chinese\u2019 Screening Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df688a1a04\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df688a1a04\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/academy-museum-to-present-monthlong-hollywood-chinese-screening-series\/#Academy_Museum_to_Present_Monthlong_%E2%80%98Hollywood_Chinese_Screening_Series\" >Academy Museum to Present Monthlong \u2018Hollywood Chinese\u2019 Screening Series<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Academy_Museum_to_Present_Monthlong_%E2%80%98Hollywood_Chinese_Screening_Series\"><\/span>Academy Museum to Present Monthlong \u2018Hollywood Chinese\u2019 Screening Series<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The Academy Museum is dedicating November to a monthlong reflection on the history of Chinese depictions in cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academymuseum.org\/en\/programs\/series\/hollywood-chinese-the-first-100-years\">Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years<\/a>,\u201d programmed by documentarian and longtime Academy member Arthur Dong, is a screening <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of features and shorts \u2013 some classics, some obscurities \u2013 that mark both highlights and lowlights of how Chinese have been portrayed in film, particularly in the Western studio system. The series is an evolution of Dong\u2019s 2007 documentary, which kicks off the series Nov. 4, and 2019 book of the same name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWhen people see a film like <em>Hollywood Chinese<\/em>, they\u2019re really only seeing snippets. We really need to see the whole, because it\u2019s not fair to the artists and the creators that we critique and examine the work based on 30 seconds,\u201d Dong, who <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deepfocusproductions.com\/formosa\/\">previewed his series<\/a> Oct. 23 as part of his ongoing Hollywood Chinese exhibition at West Hollywood\u2019s famous Formosa Caf\u00e9, tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cHere\u2019s a chance for these questions about representation and the development of the Chinese persona in Hollywood films to go further now, with a full-fledged screening of entire films. I took it on as a responsibility and a burden to contextualize certain films, like [1937\u2019s] <em>Lost Horizon<\/em> and [1964\u2019s] <em>7 Faces of Dr. Lao<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As part of the series, Dong has programmed seven double features, films that may be separated by decades but are connected by certain similarities. For example, in Nov. 12\u2019s \u201cThe Tong Wars,\u201d both <em>The Tong-Man <\/em>(1919) starring Sessue Hayakawa and Michael Cimino\u2019s <em>Year of the Dragon<\/em> (1985) spotlight Chinatown gang violence that drew ire from real-life Chinese American groups about the stereotypically violent portrayal of their community. \u201c<em>The Tong-Man<\/em> was the catalyst for, as far as we know, the very first legal protest by a Chinese American organization against racist images in Hollywood films. The organizers in San Francisco wanted to file an injunction against it being shown,\u201d says Dong, adding that 60 years later, MGM\/UA settled a lawsuit from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in L.A. by agreeing to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/08\/30\/movies\/movie-to-have-disclaimer.html\">add a disclaimer<\/a> to <em>Year of the Dragon<\/em>. \u201cThis is the legacy of uprising from the Asian American community, but it\u2019s also the legacy of racist portrayals that are still h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening today. Even in series like the current <em>Kung Fu<\/em>,<em> w<\/em>henever there are Chinese American or Chinese characters, there\u2019s still this fallback to the more exotic and dangerous \u2018vice\u2019 of Chinatown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The series also will look to celebrate underappreciated gems, particularly those that were made by venturing outside the Western studio system. In \u201cEscape From Hollywood\u201d on Nov. 27, Dong will screen 1968\u2019s <em>The Arch<\/em>, considered one of Hong Kong\u2019s first art films, and 1998 indie <em>Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl<\/em>. Both directed by Chinese women (Tang Shu Shuen and Joan Chen, respectively), the movies also represent examples of Chinese American talent having to leave America in order to expand their creative and professional horizons. \u201cJoan Chen had the breakthrough role in <em>The Last Emperor <\/em>and was the ing\u00e9nue who should have burst out, but she was mainly offered roles that exploited her sexualized exoticness,\u201d says Dong, adding that Lisa Lu, who starred in <em>The Arch<\/em>, also faced typecasting in Hollywood before she made a name for herself in Chinese film. \u201cThat to me is Hollywood Chinese, too. It\u2019s not just the films that we can trash. It\u2019s also about the experience of the Chinese or Chinese American artist and what they went through and accomplished and the legacy they left us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In his programming of the series, Dong intends to help attendees reckon with the complicated and sometimes contradictory legacy of Chinese portrayals in Hollywood, sometimes within the same film, such as <em>Charlie Chan in Hollywood<\/em>, <em>The Sand Pebbles<\/em> (which earned Makoto Iwamatsu an Oscar supporting actor nomination) and even <em>Flower Drum Song<\/em>. \u201c<em>Flower Drum Song<\/em> is one of my all-time favorite films, it\u2019s celebratory, but as David Henry Hwang says, it\u2019s a film that has a lot of guilty pleasures. <em>Sand Pebbles<\/em> is beautifully made and kickstarted Mako\u2019s decades-long career on screen and stage and put him on the map. But it\u2019s about colonialism and white saviors and Chinese prostitutes and lecherous Chinese men played by James Hong,\u201d says the programmer. \u201cMost if not all the films have questions but also levels of celebration, of saying that we should be proud of what we\u2019ve accomplished \u2013 within context \u2013 and we should take the critique in context and move forward and learn from all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1400\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arthur-Dong-Student-Academy-Awards-GettyImages-1051935058-EMBED-2022.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Arthur Dong\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"1400\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Arthur Dong<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Matthew Simmons\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Several screenings will be accompanied by conversations with special guests, including Hong for <em>Big Trouble in Little China <\/em>(screening Nov. 5), Chen for both <em>Xiu Xiu<\/em> and <em>The Last Emperor<\/em> (which will be shown Nov. 27 as part of the museum\u2019s ongoing Oscar Sundays series), Nancy Kwan (discussing both her starring role in <em>Flower Drum Song<\/em>, screening Nov. 25, and her experiences working with early leading men James Shigeta and Bruce Lee as part of Nov. 11\u2019s double feature for <em>Walk Like a Dragon<\/em> and <em>Enter the Dragon<\/em>) and Academy president Janet Yang, who produced <em>The Joy Luck Club<\/em> (screening Nov. 26).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    For some of the selections, the Hollywood Chinese screenings will represent the highest-quality exhibitions some films have received in quite a while, or ever. \u201cSo much hard work has been done to put this series together, scouring archives, working with filmmakers and their families to secure the best available copies of these films,\u201d says Bernardo Rondeau, the museum\u2019s senior director of film programs, who first discussed the possibility of this screening series with Dong, a member of the organization\u2019s inclusion advisory committee, several years ago before the museum even opened. \u201cSome of these are rarely shown, like [David] Cronenberg\u2019s <em>M. Butterfly<\/em> and <em>The Arch<\/em>, certainly not in [a setting with] the caliber of the Ted Mann Theater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cTo me, this series is one of the hallmark series for the museum. It contains in its methodology, approach and subject matter the DNA of what this museum and our film programming is about: focused on inclusion and expansion,\u201d Rondeau says. \u201cIt\u2019s a bittersweet story of film history. We\u2019re going back in the past and hopefully, in rediscovery, reshaping our understanding of film and the future of film.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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