Film Language Tag: prop, motivated

Fetishized objects and icons of homeland and past. Naficy, Hamid. An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. Appendix A, Table A.1, Components of the Accented Style. With acknowledgements to Bowdoin College and University of Rochester students Griffon Bau


Films (3)
Fetishization

Fetishization, Soul Man

Mark (C. Thomas Howell) gets dinner with the Dunbar family, who each stereotype him in a different wa

June Receives her Mother's Feather

June Receives her Mother's Feather, The Joy Luck Club

June’s father (Chao-Li Chi) gifts June (Ming-Na Wen) a swan feather. June’s mother, Suyuan (Kieu Chinh) intended to give the feather to her daughter as a symbol of her hope and pride, but passed away prior to this gifting.

Opening Sequence

Opening Sequence, The Joy Luck Club

June (Ming-Na Wen) recounts an allegory following a woman immigrating from China to the US. She brings a swan with her, intending to gift it to her future American daughter. However, an immigration officer confiscates the swan, and the mother is left with a feather.

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