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Project 2: Final Poster - Tragicomedy

on September 15, 2022

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FINAL RADIO AUDIO

Radio link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IGdBjSOeJgID0Jjh8tpSXm67H2bODwQl/view?usp=sharing Source:

Good Asian Culture Representation on Media

Good: Turning Red 2022 As Disney broadens their Asian cultural representation, they are able to create "Turning Red", a stunning work done during the difficult times of quarantine and only in a span of 3 years. It has reached the achievement for best representing Chinese audiences that live outside of China as it is not the stereotypical kung-fu fighting, mystical-dragon-filled story, it's quite the opposite. It's a slice-of-life comedy with a fantasy twist, not with flying green dragons but with fluffy, magical red pandas. This is an important movie as there are not many big, mainstream platforms that target young Asian audiences as the main character Meilin Lee, a Chinese-Canadian, a teen undergoing puberty striving to be the perfect daughter and being an independent woman, goes through struggles that a Chinese household would have on holding onto their traditions while being a minority in their hometown. She turns into a red panda whenever she is emotional, due to

Bad Asian Culture Representation on Media

Bad: RAYA and the last dragon 2021 Raya and the Last Dragon is an animated movie produced by Disney intended to represent Southeast Asians but failed miserably in doing so. The movie poorly presented different Southeast Asia cultures by merging every tradition possible, making it seem like every one of them is the same culture and people. This caused difficulty in seeing the representation of Southeast Asians as the main nations in the fictional land "Kumandra". Since Southeast Asia is full of culture and traditions, there should've been a chance in which a country could've been selected and fully represented rather than creating a whole other set of fictional worlds that the audience can't even see themselves in. In comparison to Frozen, where the location is clearly set in Norway, it is possibly analyzed from how it is presented, which is by not having a variety of Western cultures mixed altogether. An example would be how Princess Namaari, the main antagonis

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Project 2: Final Poster - Tragicomedy

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