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Yellow tale blues : two American families / directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima, Produced by Quynh Thai.
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- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Choy, Christine, author.
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans.
- Asians--United States.
- Asians.
- Minorities in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1991.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- The producers of Who Killed Vincent Chin? turned the camera on their own families to make this innovative documentary on ethnic stereotypes. Clips from Hollywood movies, from a vintage silent film to Breakfast at Tiffany s, reveal nearly a century of disparaging images of Asians. These images are juxtaposed with portraits of the Choys, an immigrant, working class family, and the Tajimas, a fourth-generation middle class California family. Seeing the efforts of these families to establish themselves in America makes the celluloid images seem both laughable and sad.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- Asian/Pacific American Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, 1991
- Juror's Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, 1991
- OCLC:
- 747798750
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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