After Yang

I join Giulia Oprea ([email protected]) we explore the recent sleeper hit After Yang from an academic perspective, Kogonada's flipping-of-the-script prompted discussions on Techno-Orientalism and how Science Fiction is inextricably intertwined with both History as well as the modern societal perspective. Join us for this informative and fascinating discussion, which does NOT require (though we both highly recommend) seeing the movie - which can currently be found on Showtime, and is also available for purchase on various Video on Demand platforms. Sources cited in discussion suggested for further reading: “After Yang Review: Kogonada’s Futuristic Family Drama is a Meditation on Memory and Technology” by Caroline Tsai “After Yang Intentionally Subverts Sci-Fi’s Fetishistic ‘Hollow Asian’ Trope” by Leo Kim “Where the Future Is Asian, and the Asians Are Robots” by Jane Hu "There's no Yellow in the Red, White, and Blue": The Creation of Anti-Japanese Music during World War II” by Krystyn R. Moon “Race at the Center: The History of American Cold War Asian Adoption” by Catherine Ceniza Choy Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu. The American Robot: A Cultural History by Dustin A. Abnet Rotating Segment: Wrong Answers Only! With only the poster as a reference point, we try to guess the plot of a movie! Click here to play along! http://www.impawards.com/1976/futureworld.html