Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape

Overview

Valerie Soe catalogues a visual compendium of orientalist and exoticizing representations of Asian women snatched from American film and television. Juxtaposed with text from mail-order bride catalogs, men's magazines, and popular literature, these clips from over 25 films and television programs explicate the orientalism and exoticism prevalent in mass media images of Asian women.