Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies

• Work with one or two classmates.
• Try searching the Entertainment Magazine Archive for items about a film or show you’ve watched in class or will watch later this semester
  • Madame Butterfly (1932)
  • Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
  • The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
  • Sayonara (1957)
  • Flower Drum Song (1961)
  • Mississippi Masala (1991)
  • The Joy Luck Club (1993)
  • First Person Plural (2000)
  • All American Girl 
  • Saving Face (2004)
  • Mindy Project 
• Limit your search results to a few years around the time period when the film or show first premiered.
• Look for an interesting article or advertisement to share with the class. How could this article or advertisement help you explore representations of Asian/American women in film, television, or theater? 
• Place a screenshot of your article or advertisement in our class slide deck. Be prepared to tell the class about why you've selected this article or advertisement.

As a class, we'll search the Vogue Archive:

• Work with one or two classmates.
• Try searching ProQuest Historical Newspapers and Ethnic NewsWatch for articles about a film or show you will watch later this semester:
  • The Joy Luck Club (1993)
  • All American Girl (1994)
  • Saving Face (2004)
  • Mindy Project 
• Limit your search results to a few years around the time period when the film or show first premiered.
• Explore news coverage from Asian American newspapers in Ethnic NewsWatch. Compare these articles to those in ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
• How could these news articles help you explore representations of Asian/American women in film, television, or theater? Please be prepared to share some of your group's observations with the class.

• Work with one or two classmates.
• Using some of the keywords we've brainstormed as a class, search for secondary source using one of the databases below. 
• Locate a scholarly source that you could use to contextualize a film or show you'll watch in class. Please be prepared to share your group's source with the class.