Reloaded will be screening at NYU on Thursday, October 27, 2011!
The information is as follows:
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
Theater 101
6:30PM-8:30PM
The post-screening discussion will feature director Elaine Kim; Benjamin Han, Cinema Studies NYU; and Jeff Yang, curator of the current A/P/A Institute exhibition “Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986,” and will be moderated by Gayatri Gopinath, director of the A/P/A Studies Program at NYU. The discussion will address new and persisting images of Asians in the popular imaginary as well as some of the complexities of shifting archetypes and their psychological and developmental effects on Asian American youth.
Filmmaker Elaine Kim is the Professor and Head of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. She has also authored and co-authored several publications, most recently Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art.
Co-sponsored by: The NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program; and NYU Center for Media, Culture and History
