LTCS 119Asian American Film and Media

4 units · LTCS · UC San Diego

(Cross-listed with CGS 119.) The course explores the politics of pleasure in relation to the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in the mass media of film, video, and the internet. The course considers how the “deviant” sexuality of Asian Americans (e.g., hypersexual women and emasculated men) does more than uniformly harm and subjugate Asian American subjects. The texts explored alternate between those produced by majoritarian culture and the interventions made by Asian American filmmakers. Students may receive credit for one of the following: LTCS 119, LTCS 119GS, CGS 119, or CGS 119GS.