ABSTRACT

This essay takes a postcolonial approach to trouble the celebratory notion that Crazy Rich Asians is unequivocal progress for Asian/American media representation. Using textual analysis, the essay reads Asian subjectivities portrayed in the movie in the context of race relations in the United States, in Singapore, and between the United States and Asia. The essay concludes by discussing how yellowface mockery and ambivalence center whiteness in different ways for Asia-Asians and Asian Americans, and it argues for the continued relevance of yellowface theorizations for unpacking representations of Asian/American subjectivities in filmic texts that are produced by, for, and with Asians.

摘要

这篇文章采用后殖民主义的方法来驳斥“疯狂的亚洲富人”是亚洲/美国媒体代表的明确进步的庆祝概念。通过文本分析，这篇文章解读了电影中在美国、新加坡以及美国与亚洲之间的种族关系背景下描绘的亚洲主体性。本文最后讨论了黄脸嘲弄和矛盾心理如何以不同的方式为亚裔和亚裔美国人中心化白人，并论证黄脸理论在解开由以下机构制作的电影文本中的亚裔/美国人主体性表征方面的持续相关性： ，和亚洲人。