Constructing a New Asian Masculinity: Reading Lilting Against Other Films by Asian Filmmakers

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dc.contributor.advisorChan, Roy
dc.contributor.authorCheng, Feng
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T18:51:04Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T18:51:04Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.description.abstractIn western media, Asian men have traditionally represented as either effeminized or emasculated. First providing a historical and ideological account for such representations, this thesis proceeds to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the three strategies that Asian filmmakers have adopted to counter this stereotype: the assimilationistic strategy, the segregationistic strategy and the integrationistic strategy. Eventually, this thesis proposes a new way to cope with dilemma by providing a close reading of a British independent film, Lilting. It argues that a fourth strategy, which is named the dynamic strategy, can be detected. Because in this film masculinity is presented as a fluid quality that flows through different characters and does not attach to race or any other fixed identity, there is no need to struggle against the demands imposed by the white hegemony.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20520
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAsian masculinityen_US
dc.subjectLiltingen_US
dc.subjectStrategyen_US
dc.subjectWhite hegemonyen_US
dc.titleConstructing a New Asian Masculinity: Reading Lilting Against Other Films by Asian Filmmakers
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies Program: Asian Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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