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"Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell": Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 49, Number 1, Fall 2009
- pp. 20-40
- 10.1353/cj.0.0156
- Article
- Additional Information
Asian American film and video evolved out of the civil rights and ethnic studies movements, sharing with them a fundamental ideology of social change. However, a closer examination of its institutional history shows how this tradition conflicted with an equally important and at times contradictory discourse of aesthetics and form.