Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women by Alexa Alice Joubin in Richmond

Click "more" to view chapters. In her keynote lecture at the Tucker Boatwright Festival in Richmond, Virginia, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that the harmful notions of yellow peril and yellow fever converge to form techno-Orientalism in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women. The event was organized and hosted by Jessica Chan at the University of Richmond.
Using the three interlocking concepts of yellow peril, yellow fever, and techno-Orientalism, this illustrated keynote lecture reveals the manifestation of “yellow fever” in the depiction of Asian American women and suggests ways to identify tacit forms of misogynistic racism as well as strategies for inclusion.
Joubin's keynote was part of the Symposium Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination: as.richmond.ed...
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00:49 Jessica Chan introduces Alexa Alice Joubin
02:34 Racism and sexism are intertwined
04:13 Illegible minority: visible but not understood
04:33 Evelyn Waugh on Anna May Wong
05:23 Constance Wu on stereotypes
07:03 Kinship in cinema
08:21 Case Study: Ex Machina
13:46 Objectification. Example: Pygmalion
16:14 Kill Bill: Volume 1
17:17 Kyoko in Ex Machina is overlooked
18:51 Laura Mulvey's male gaze theory
19:36 Joubin's theory of colorblind gaze
20:23 Miami Vice (2006)
21:23 Yellow Peril
22:16 Yellow Fever
23:27 Orientalism
23:46 Techno-Orientalism
25:53 "Asians have become the backdrop to futurity"
27:00 Fist of Fury (1972)
28:36 Double Happiness
33:17 Fungibility
34:33 Memoir of a Geisha
35:38 Atlanta massacre, 2021
37:50 Humans by Channel 4
38:40 Video Clip from Humans
42:16 Asian motifs in films
43:56 Conflation of technological and racial imaginations of otherness
45:54 Conclusion: How do we move forward?