Seeing Your Asian Self on Screen
Kimberly Yam, Asian Voices editor for HuffPost, talks about how the experience of seeing the film "Crazy Rich Asians" was personally meaningful, and takes calls from listeners about what it means to see yourself reflected on the screen.
Tune in now: @kimmythepooh,
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 24, 2018
Asian Voices editor @HuffPost, joins to talk about what the film, "Crazy Rich Asians," means to her. Check out her thread on the film and the importance of Asian representation (which went viral recently) here: https://t.co/EJ43GOX6ic
"There’s this concept called symbolic annihilation… when you are not represented in this entertainment, media, fictional world, your social existence in the real world is not symbolically validated," says @kimmythepooh on the new film "Crazy Rich Asians." https://t.co/JE6GnVgu5p
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 24, 2018
Saw this in my suburban locale. Lotsa seniors (white) in the theatre which was quite full. They loved it. I loved it!!! Representation matters.
— Mei Mei (@MeiMeiMemeMe) August 24, 2018
The "crazy" in Crazy Rich Asians modifies "rich" ... in the movie (and IIRC in the book) Peik Lin says the Young family isn't just "rich", it's "crazy rich"
— Helen Shin (@H_X_S) August 24, 2018
