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- The Movies, Race, Ethnicity (for cinema works by Asian American filmmakers or films with images of Asian Americans
- Arirang.
- An extensive documentary of the history of Korean American immigration to the United States. Pt. 1
covers early Korean immigration, beginning with a three-year period starting in 1903 when more than 7,000 Koreans left their strife-torn homeland for new lives on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. Pt. 2 explores the expansion of Korean immigration after the Korean War and changes in U.S. immigration law during the 1960s. 47 min. covers early Korean immigration, beginning with a three-year period starting in 1903 when more than 7,000 Koreans left their strife-torn homeland for new lives on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. Pt. 2 explores the expansion of Korean immigration after the Korean War and changes in U.S. immigration law during the 1960s. Written, produced and directed by Tom Coffman. c2003. 112 min. DVD 2245
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- Be Good, My Children.
- An irreverent drama about a Korean immigrant family in New York City, whose members each have very different ideas about what life should be like in their adopted homeland. Raises issues affecting many immigrant communities: racism, sexism, representation of Asians in the media. A film by Christine Chang. 47 min. Video/C 4387
- Black Hair and Black-eyed
- A film by Julie Whang. From what sources does a young Korean-American lesbian draw her sense of identity? er mother, from fashion magazines, from the boy she dances with, or the girl she sleeps with, or her own barren apartment? 1994. 9 min. Video/C 5215
- Camp Arirang.
- Filmmakers explore prostitution near American military bases in South Korea and examine the lives of the sex workers and their Amerasian children who live in U.S. camp towns throughout South Korea. Through interviews with the workers, soldiers and scholars the film examines the historical roots of the problem and the complicity of the Korean and American governments. 1995. 28 min. Video/C 5299
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- Fighting Grandpa
- A sensitive and probing portrayal of Korean immigrant grandparents and their marriage. Grandma, left alone with four children for ten years in Korea, while her husband studied in America, was finally brought to Hawaii where she endured new hardships. Now, after 70 years of marriage, when grandpa dies, grandma's stoicism gives way to a piercing grief which surprises and confounds her family. Director/writer/cinematographer, Greg Pak. 1998. 21 min. Video/C 6526
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- First Person Plural
- A personal and political film about the filmmaker's experiences being adopted from South Korea at the age of nine and raised by an American Caucasian family. In this personal documentary she chronicles her struggle
to reconcile the demands of two families, two cultures and two nations. 1999. 59 min. Video/C 7533
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- Great Girl.
- This film follows Kim Su Theiler who came to America as a child adoptee, as she returns to Korea looking for her birth mother. Drawn from personal experience, this film is an evocative and poetic drama about al and cultural disorientation. A film by Kim Su Theiler. 1994. 14 min. Video/C 5230
- Halmani.
- Sensitive story of generation and cultural differences that occur when a Korean grandmother visits her
daughter, American son-in-law, and bi-racial granddaughter in the United States. 30 min. Video/C 4157
- Korean Americans
- This program examines a major piece of the new American mosaic, Korean Americans. Seeking to retain their traditional cultural values while adjusting to life in the U.S., Korean Americans have come into frequent and violent conflict with inner-city African Americans, and have sought, through their own ethnic civic organizations, to overcome the rejection of the community around them. 993. 51 min. Video/C 6602
- Korean Americans (Multicultural Peoples of North America).
- One of a 15 part series which celebrates the heritage of fifteen different cultural groups by tracing the history of their emigration to North America, showing the unique traditions they brought with them, and who they are today. Each volume discusses when and why each group emigrated, where they settled, which occupations they engaged in, and who the important leaders are within each community. 30 min. Video/C 3299
- Living in Half Tones
- A short photo-essay by a Korean-American woman adopted by an American family as a child who returns to the Korean orphanage where she was first brought to find out about her Korean background and identity.
A film by Karen Me Kyung MucKenhirn 9 min. Video/C 7584
- Margaret Cho: Assassin A2TV; Here!(2005)
- Margaret Cho returns to the concert stage with a "killer" stand-up show that breaks new ground it its hilarious attack on politics and society. Taking aim at the media, organized religion and national policy she pulls no punches in her assault on America's "ever devolving" cultural state. Recorded live at The Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C. 84 min. DVD 4694
- [Margaret] CHO Revolution (2004)
- Directed by Lorene Machado. In concert, Margaret Cho tackles the axis of evil, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend and her now world-famous mother. 95 min. DVD 2854
- My Niagara.
- Probes the emotional undercurrents of a third-generation Japanese American woman who breaks up with her Caucasian boyfriend then meets a young Korean immigrant obsessed with all things American. A film by Helen Lee. 40 min. Video/C 4807
- Description from Women Make Movies catalog
- Notorious C.H.O.
- Filmed live in Seattle. Margaret Cho, a comedian in the spirit of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, is known as much for her raunchy humor as for her enormous contributions as a social equalizer. c2002. 95 min. DVD 2854
- Passing Through: A Personal Diary Documentary
- Nathan Adolfson, a Korean adoptee who grew up in Minnesota, returns to his birthland. After spending six months at Yonsei University, the filmmaker is reuinted on Korean national television with his three long lost siblings. An absorbing account of how national barriers can stimulate rather than hinder personal growth, this film offers a timely look at a unique demographic coming of age. 1998. 28 min. Video/C 7054
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- Sa-I-Gu.
- Explores the embittering effect the Rodney King verdict rebellion had on a group of Korean American women shopkeepers. It underscores the shattering of the American Dream while taking the media to task for playing up the "Korean-Black" aspect of the rioting. This film provides a perspective that is essential to discussions of the L.A. riots, ethnic relations, and racism in the United States. Includes interviews with the filmakers Elaine Kim and Christine Choy. 41 min. DVD 8551; vhs Video/C 2837
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 Wet Sand
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- Choy, Christine; Kim, Elaine; Sil, Dai; Gibson, Kim. "Sa-I-Gu. (short Story)" (movie reviews) Amerasia Journal v19, n2 (Spring, 1993):161 (3 pages).
- Gateward, Frances. "Breaking the Silences: An Interview with Dai Sil Kim-Gibson." Quarterly Review of Film & Video. 20(2):99-110. 2003 Apr-June
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- James, David.
- "Tradition And The Movies: The Asian American Avant-Garde In Los Angeles."
Journal of Asian American Studies 1999 2(2): 157-180.
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- Seoul II
- Korean film maker, Hak J. Chung explores his own identity and that of the Yates family. The Yates' household consists of the father, an African American Korean war veteran, his Korean war bride and their three grown children. Discusses the discrimination the family has encountered and the cultural miscommunications that exist within the family.
Produced at USC School of Cinema & Televis 1997? 25 min. Video/C 8805
- Sophie.
- A somber, disquieting portrait of a Korean American family trapped in the miserable grasp of an abusive, alcoholic patriarch, told from the point of view of Sophie, a girl in the family. Written & directed by Helen Haeyoung Lee. 2002. 29 min. Video/C MM1124
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- Surplus.
- In this dark and haunting film on patriarchy and poverty and their human cost for a Korean family, a farmer struggling to feed his family, must decide on a course of action to fend off starvation. On many levels, the film is about the abandonment of children, the tragic by-product of poverty and hard-pressed parents. The filmmaker, a Korean adoptee, draws insightful parallels with the film to the growing pains of the Korean American adoptee community. Written and directed by Joy Dietrich. c2000. 23 min. Video/C MM1123
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- Through the Milky Way.
- This experimental videotape focuses on a Korean woman's experience of emigrating to Hawaii at the turn of the century and her sense of displacement arising from the conflict between native identity and adopted culture. Produced, written & directed by Yun-ah Hong. 1992. 19 min. Video/C 5196
- We Got Moves You Ain't Even Heard Of (Part One)
- Directed by Erica Cho and Clover Paek. Cast: Clover Paek, Ji Sung Kim, Audrey Luke, Lynne Chan. Obsessed with 80's teen heartthrob Ralph Macchio (aka The Karate Kid), a gay Young Korean American takes a journey into Macchio's pin-up androgyny and Hollywood's all-American underdog fantasies. An experimental film commenting on sexual identity, butch/femme rolls, and Hollywood's orientalism. 1999. 11 min. Video/C MM1017
- Western Eyes
- Examines the search for beauty and self-acceptance through the experiences of a young Filipina and Korean woman living in Canada who both believe their appearance, specifically their eyes, affect the way they are perceived. Both feel unsettled in Western society and are contemplating cosmetic surgery on their eyes. Layering interviews with references to super models and other pop-culture icons of beauty, the filmmaker captures the pain that almost always lies behind the desire for plastic surgery. 1979. 40 min. Video/C 7711
- Description from First Run Icarus catalog
- Wet Sand: Voices from L.A. Ten Years Later.
- Kim-Gibson's follow-up to "Sa-i-gu" looks into the past and present to question how much has changed in the last ten years following the 1992 L.A. riots. Interviews with a multi-ethnic set of first-hand witnesses reveal that living conditions have deteriorated and that few remedies have been dministered to the communities most stricken. 2003. 59 min. DVD Video/C MM311
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- Yellow.
- A dramatization about parental expectations in the Korean-American family. Sin Lee is a Korean American teenager who is robbed while working alone in his father's grocery store. Already feeling pressure to prove the worth of his general existence, he is unable to face his father about the loss. He and his buddies rally together and scheme to recover the money before sunrise. 90 min. Video/C 6089
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