Hollywood Chinese

Hollywood Chinese is a captivating deep dive into a little-explored chapter of cinema: the Chinese in American feature films. From the first Chinese American film, produced in 1917, to Ang Lee’s triumphant Brokeback Mountain nine decades later, Arthur Dong’s illuminating documentary brings together clips from over ninety movies, alongside the fascinating personal accounts of actors, directors, and writers - including Nancy Kwan, Wayne Wang, Joan Chen, Amy Tan, David Henry Hwang, BD Wong, and Ang Lee - to show how the Chinese have been imagined in movies and how filmmakers have navigated an industry with a complex, often troubling relationship to matters of race and representation. (Criterion)