Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
In the last decade, there have been so many changes in terms of Asians and Asian-Americans working in network television and the commercial cinema; this is a move that has been both unprecedented and inevitable, as it signals the ways in which television production has been atomized, with the advent of cable and the multiplicity … Read more
Reporter Ti-Hua Chang will discuss the challenges faced by being an Asian American male on broadcast television, as well as being an Asian American in corporate America.
Date: Friday, May 2, 2003 Time: 8:15AM to 4:30PM Place: Newman Vertical Campus – Baruch College, CUNY 55 Lexington Avenue (E. 25th Street), Room 3-150, btwn Lexington & 3rd Avenues, Manhattan
Originally, the main focus of the lecture would be on Asian-American Media in the Last Decade, but after careful reconsideration, it was pushed back to 1987, the year the Asian American International Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary. Deemed the Asian American version of Brats, it was a year when many young generation filmmakers and … Read more
What is the difference, in terms of empowerment, between being in the media and being a gatekeeper to the media? At the moment, the media is full of important figures in the arts and entertainment, including Lucy Liu’s massive following for her role on TV’s Ally McBeal, Amy Tan’s new novel (which is at second … Read more