APA 345 Midterm Exam

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What is a mise-en-scene?
Typage​ refers to
Cinematic “props” are
Costuming and make-up in the mise-en-scene can be
When did the Chinese first enter the US in large numbers?
Japanese Americans were interned because
Many Asian Americans did not passively accept the violence against them nor the
discriminatory laws directed at them. What law best exemplifies this in the case of
citizenship rights​?

2. Other Asian American experiences were just as bad as Japanese Americans during WW II
How many waves of Southeast Asian refugee migrations were there?
The Salvador Roldan case prevented ___
What was the reason for the increase of Asian immigrants after 1965?
The Japanese, Filipinos, and Asian Indians arrived around the same time as the Chinese
in the US. True or False?
According to Stam and Shohat’s “The Imperial Imaginary,” what is the one powerful tool
that the cinema has which the novel and print does not have to give the viewer a sense of
power and narcissism (eg., egocentricity)?
In the film discussion of ​Wild Geese (1978), Shohat and Stam (“Imperial Imaginary”)
describe it as emblematic of the late imperialist film in which imperialism is on its decline.
What of the following ​is not part​ of Shohat and Stam’s (“Imperial Imaginary”) description
of key narratives in the late imperialist film?
In Stam and Shohat’s essay, “The Imperial Imaginary,” one “master trope” of
Euroamerican cinema is that of nationhood. How does cinema give the sense of
nationhood and national belonging?
According to Stam and Shohat (“Imperial Imaginary”), how did the Gulf war narrative (in
the US networks’ coverage of the first Gulf war) empower the US viewer to be righteous
and all-seeing?

3. In the film ​Bitter Tea, Gina Marchetti (“Threat of Captivity”) suggests that Megan’s dream
at Yen’s palace symbolizes
According to Gina Marchetti’s essay “The Threat of Captivity,” from the beginning of the
film, ​Bitter Tea recalls earlier tropes and narratives within American history. Which is it?
According to Gina Marchetti (“Threat of Captivity”) and many film theorists, Josef von
Sternberg’s films (​Shanghai Express) are considered “exotic melodramas” because of his
cinematic techniques. Why?
According to Gina Marchetti’s essay “The Threat of Captivity,” in the ​Shanghai Express
why is the Eurasian character Chang such a threat?
According to Christina Klein (“Family Ties as Obligation”) what was the political agenda
of the Christian Children’s Fund’s of Asian adoption?
According to Christina Klein (“Family Ties as Obligation”), America’s fear of “Momism”
during World War II changed over to the fear of _____ during post World War II. Fill in the
blank.
According to Christina Klein (“Family Ties as Obligation”), ​South Pacific created by Oscar
Hammerstein was envisioned as an antiracist story, true or false?
Christina Klein argues that during post World War II era, American middlebrow
intellectuals and writers believed that the United States’ lack of obligation to Asia was the
result of ______

4. In the film ​Sayonara, the double-suicide of Kelly and Katsumi would seem to provide
social commentary about racism and classism. But according to Gina Marchetti, the result
of the double-suicide in the rest of the film really shows what?
In Marchetti’s “Tragic and Transcendent Love,” the film ​The Crimson Kimono uses _____
difference as a way to avoid talking about _____ difference. Fill in the blanks
According to Marchetti (“Tragic and Transcendent Love”), even while ​Sayonara envisions
racial acceptance of Japanese and Asians, the representations of Hana Ogi and Katsumi
(as Japanese women) are
According to Gina Marchetti’s (“Tragic and Transcendent Love”) reading of ​Sayonara, any
ideological critique of the military and the Korean War becomes relegated to Lloyd
Gruver’s ______ (fill in the blank).
According to William Wei, some Asian and Pacific Islanders are not as well recorded
within APA history. Who are considered the “Forgotten Asian Americans?”
During the early period of the Asian American Movement, artists and filmmakers believed
that
According to William Wei’s history of Asian American Activism in art and history, one of
the first major exhibits showcased by The New York Chinatown History Project was story
about
In Stephen Gong’s “A History of Progress,” about the Asian American media arts
movement, what is the difference between media/television and the media arts?

5. Since the 1990s, the most successful and probably well-known Asian American media
arts center is: