The Replication and Internalization of Misogyny : An analysis of Asian mother images in American mother-daughter relationship films
여성 혐오의 복제와 내면화：미국 모녀관계 영화 속의 아시아 어머니계 이미지에 대한 분석
- 주제(키워드) 도움말 Misogyny , Asian representation , Asian mother , Feminism
- 발행기관 고려대학교 대학원
- 지도교수 도움말 신혜린
- 발행년도 2024
- 학위수여년월 2024. 2
- 학위명 석사
- 학과 대학원 미디어학과
- 원문페이지 152 p
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/korea/000000280289
- UCI I804:11009-000000280289
- DOI 10.23186/korea.000000280289.11009.0000382
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
Asian mother-daughter relationship films hit in 2022. It helps people's attention on Asian representation in Hollywood shift to the narrations of Asian families. As early as 1993, The Joy Luck Club has tied the intergenerational collision to the complex mother-daughter relationship. For decades, the contradiction in Asian mother-daughter relationships has been used repeatedly in the portrayal of Asian mothers. Immigrant women are once again at the centre of the narrative, and the reconfiguration of Asian women's representation is breathtaking. However, the productive participation of women and the emphasis on the Asian "Tiger Mother" stereotype in the film point to invisible misogyny encoding and internalized sexism. This again symbolizes the absence and distortion of representation. In the name of love, the demonized mother is "empowered" to become an agent of patriarchy, helping maintain systematic oppression. Misogyny is transmitted in the projection of the mother to the daughter. Motherhood is judged in the narrative of Asian women, suggesting the construction of a new "motherhood penalty." The intersection of gender, age, race, language and other factors for immigrant women requires discussion in the context of colonialism. Moreover, almost all Asian mother-daughter relationship films try to cover up the trap of representation with the final reconciliation. With the popularity of film, the hidden misogyny is widely tacitly accepted and applied. The purpose of this study is to examine and challenge the hidden misogynistic encodings and to clarify the reproduction and persistence of stereotypes in Asian mother-daughter relationship films. In this way, the researcher aims to reveal the new dilemma the maternal narrative brings to Asian women and help immigrant women recognize and perceive identity and oppression clearly. To this end, this study explores and summarizes the evolution of the Asian mother image. With discourse analysis and narrative analysis as the primary research methods, this paper analyses The Joy Luck Club(1993), Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022) and Turning Red(2022). The results show that in these films, the historical images of Asian women being overly sexualized and objectified are removed, and the overly controlled and strict "tiger mother" image is strengthened. Based on the monotonous and repetitive family narrative, the image of an Asian mother is alienated. Under the cover of empowerment, Asian women promote patriarchal gender domestication. Misogyny is replicated, sexism is internalized, and patriarchy fundamentally creates the "shadow of love."
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ABSTRACT i
국문 초록 iii
ACKNOWLEDMENTS vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS viii
LIST OF TABLES/FIGURES x
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 10
2.1 Orientalism 10
2.2 Feminism 13
2.2.1 Post-colonial Feminism 13
2.2.2 Liberal Feminism 16
2.3 Mother 17
2.3.1 Tiger Mother 17
2.3.2 Motherhood Myth 21
2.4 Model Minority with "Triple Package" 25
2.5 Misogyny 26
CHAPTER 3. HISTORY OF ASIAN MOTHER REPRESENTATION 31
CHAPTER 4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND METHODOLOGY 48
CHAPTER 5. ANALYSIS 55
5.1 The Joy Luck Club(1993) 55
5.1.1 The East 58
5.1.2 Hope 66
5.1.3 Domestication 72
5.2 Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022) 77
5.2.1 Super Mother 80
5.2.2 Joy Got into Nihilism 84
5.2.3 Waymond 88
5.2.4 Reconciliation 94
5.3 Turning Red(2022) 97
5.3.1 Ming&Mei 98
5.3.2 Transgenerational Phantoms 104
5.3.3 Two Apologies 107
CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION 112
REFERENCE 122
