Gender Stereotypes In Hollywood Film Analysis

Asian American films have come along way since they first started with prejudice films such as The Dragon Lady where actress “Wong” was portrayed an a submissive demonic prostitute who most of the time favored white men. Furthermore, Hollywood’s discrimination of Asian people does not help with winning people of color approval for misrepresenting their culture. Moreover, their lack of consideration towards Asian women has lead to an uproar among the Asian community leading to a few boycotts and protests. Hollywood writers and directors do have a social responsibility to avoid stereotyping ethnic characters because of their misrepresentation of minority cultures in television often leading to racial, painful, and dehumanizations of minority groups in media. Three topics I will be discussing are Hollywood’s prejudice towards females, yellow facing, and casting of Caucasian actors and actresses to portray Asian characters. Hollywood’s ongoing issue with using caucasian actors and actresses to portray Asian characters continues to be an insult and issue among the …show more content…
Moreover, misrepresentation of Asian characters images were and continue to be damaging to Asians across the country. Asian actors were often denied to play themselves in popular television shows. For example, actor David Carradine, was chosen to start in the television series, Kong Fu, instead of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee’s involvement in the show is controversial because some would argue that he was the one who came up with the concept of the television series, but others would argue about how Warner Brothers stole his idea and casted a while male to play the role he came up with. Asian actors and actresses still face some of the same prejudice issues as their predecessors did in the past and they are still fighting the good fight to be politically represented in show