He Says, She Says: (Inter)national Women’s (Mis)understandings of Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle Minority Portrayals

Feminist Film Theory and Comic Feminist Film Theory backdrop this study, which struggles through Asian, Asian American and American women’s perspectives regarding a globalized popular culture minority portrayal(s). Textual analysis and audience study reveal that stereotypes nor beauty nor behavior standards are transborder, dual pan-ethnicization occurs, women’s limited space within the male-constructed public sphere is reified, and Straubhaar’s (1991) cultural proximity notion is challenged; gender experienced through comedy trumps several societal demarcations.

Publisher: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL, Aug 06, 2008
Year of Publication: 2008