Hollywood Chinese also unearths films long thought to be lost. Hollywood Chinese is punctuated with a dazzling treasure trove of clips from over 90 movies, dating from 1890s paper prints up to the current new wave of Asian American cinema. Two-time Oscar® winner Luise Rainer ( Good Earth, 1937), character actor Christopher Lee ( Fu Manchu, 1960-65), and 1940s matinee idol Turhan Bey ( Dragon Seed, 1944) give first-hand recollections on being yellow on the silver screen.
Non-Asian personalities are also featured to point out the controversy over portraying the Chinese in yellow-face. Wong, Nancy Kwan, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, James Hong, and Amy Tan are among the storytellers who have wrestled with being the “other” in Hollywood. Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, Joan Chen, David Henry Hwang, Justin Lin, B.D. Hollywood Chinese is produced, directed, written and edited by Academy Award® nominee and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill, Coming Out Under Fire, Forbidden City, U.S.A.), and presents eleven of the industry’s most accomplished Chinese and Chinese American film artists who share personal accounts of working in film.
From the first Chinese American film produced in 1917, to Ang Lee’s triumphant Brokeback Mountain nine decades later, Hollywood Chinese brings together a fascinating portrait of actors, directors, writers, and iconic images to show how the Chinese have been imagined in movies, and how filmmakers have and continue to navigate an industry that was often ignorant about race, but at times paradoxically receptive. Hollywood Chinese is a captivating revelation on a little-known chapter of cinema: the Chinese in American feature films. “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” – Chinatown, Screenplay by Robert Towne (1974)īruce Lee and Suzie Wong – mention “Chinese in Hollywood” and it’s all about the exotic. Grandview Films: Cinematic Crossings with Joseph Sunn Jue.Hollywood Chinese: The Arthur Dong Collection.Claiming a Voice: The Visual Communications Story.Educational, Library, and Institutional Sales.
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