Category: Diaspora
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Organic Futures: Intersecting Tradition, Technology, and Asian Identities in After Yang
Written by Luca Graziani for Justine McLellan’s Cinema Styles course Following the lives of mixed-race couple Kyra and Jake, who purchase an android named Yang to teach their adoptive child Mika about her Chinese culture and heritage, After Yang explores the theme of Asian identity through the means of technology, nature, and the instrumental contrast…
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Migration, Memory, and Identity: Kim Thúy’s Journey from Vietnam to Québec
Written by Berdie Pidika Matondo for Justine McLellan’s Cinema and Culture course Ru is a 2023 Québécois film directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud based on Kim Thúy’s 2009 novel of the same name. Both works recount the story of a Vietnamese family that migrates to Quebec in 1978, three years after the Vietnam war. The adaptation…
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Cultural Differences, Diasporic Cinema in The Farewell
By Clarisse Boutin, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course Click the image or here to watch
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