The Slanted Screen

The Slanted Screen
by Jeff Adachi

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Actor: Jason Scott Lee; Tzi Ma; Mako; Dustin Nguyen; James Shigeta; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa; Terence Chang; Phillip Rhee; Heidi Levitt; Gene Cajayon; Will Yun Lee; Eric Byler; Bobby Lee
Director: Jeff Adachi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 61 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Passion River

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Movie Review: A great, even important doc, but...
Summary: 4 Stars

A fascinating, important examination of the profound racist stereotyping that White producers, directors and writers have inflicted on (the relatively few) Asian and Asian-American film and TV characters of the past century--and, of course, on the Asian-American actors trying to make careers in those media. For me, a White American, the power of the film came from being made to face the really deep, destructive racism against Asian-Americans pervading American popular culture, now being beaten back slowly but one hopes surely by directors like Wayne Wang and Chi Moui Lo and actors like Sung Kang, Bobby Lee and Yunjin Kim.

But that last mentioned actor (Kim) is the problem I had with "The Slanted Screen": Kim isn't interviewed in the film, and neither is any other female actor, writer or director. Almost none is shown in the film and TV clips shown. (The only two women interviewed in the entire film are both White academics, giving "expert" testimony.)

"Slanted Screen" is, then, only an examination of the stereotyping and exclusion of Asian-American men. Which turns out to be important and eye-opening project, but this limitation is never expressly declared or justified in the film. Thus a documentary that does a great job at exposing racism and its costs gives the appearance of being quite sexist.

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