Indian accents : brown voice and racial performance in American television and film /

"The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being...

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主要作者: Davé, Shilpa
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2013]
叢編:Asian American experience.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt2ttc7z
實物特徵
總結:"The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being praised as a model minority because they are highly educated, speak English, and can economically succeed in America. In American cinema and television, Shilpa Davé serves how contemporary images of South Asians build upon, modify, and at times diverge from previous stereotypes of Asian Americans as immigrants and model minorities"--
實物描述:1 online resource.
參考書目:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780252094583
0252094581
1299243207
9781299243200
9780252037405
9780252078934
0252037405
0252078934