1. Asian American Race, Class, Gender, And Television Action: Vanishing Son And Martial Law
... years, American action film and television, involving martial artists as heroes, tended to be dominated by narratives revolving around Euro-American protagonists played by actors as diverse as Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack, Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984), Steven Seagal in films like Above the Law ... to move freely in a vertiginously mercurial postmodern society. Clearly, both Jian-Wa and Sammo also help to make television "safe- for non-white actors. Jian-Wa literally battles the KKK in an early, feature-length episode of Vanishing Son, and Sammo faces off against white supremacis...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate