I saw this on PBS a few nights ago and found it quite
interesting/entertaining despite some noticeable omissions ..concerned
with the "male" Asian actor influence(no specific reference or
discussion about ANNA MAY WONG for example or any female actors that i
recall)...no discussion about KEYE Luke or VICTOR SEN YOUNG(both had
lengthy careers!) either among others...otherwise quite informative for
what it tried to cover in only an hour's time...
yea i caught it on PBS too. i think they were only focusing on asian males because IMO they're worse off in hollywood than asian actresses. hollywood seems to pair asian women with other ethnicities ie lucy liu in charlie's angels so they get more roles. meanwhile, like the documentary pointed out, asian males are either typecast, desexualized, or stereotyped. it's so hard to find an asian male lead in hollywood that DOESN'T know martial arts.
and as you pointed out i wished they had made the doc longer with more actors. it was very informative. you should encourage more people to see it.
I wished they could have included Pat Morita and George Takei.
I remember reading an interview when Jeff said he regret not interviewing Pat when he had the chance to...
There's one documentary for Asian American actress - Slaying the Dragon (1988).
The Slanted Screen is an excellent and informative documentary.
I just saw this on TCM and found it interesting. There's a lot of ground to cover in about an hour, so a lot got left out. I'll have to keep an eye out for Slaying the Dragon. Perhaps someone will do a documentary on Asian images in animation - if so, they should definitely include some of the Mr. Magoo and Dick Tracy cartoons from the early 60s. Both had characters that were kind of the cartoon equivalent of Mickey Rooney's role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
shareI do wish they'd billed this differently. As it sits, the complete omission of women seems, well, slanted.
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