Manufacturing Authenticity: The Feminine Ideal in Tony Bui's Three Seasons

Exploring the Function of the Anti-communist Ideology and Identity in the Vietnamese American Diasporic Community

“…6 (2011) "often feel reluctant to voice contrary opinions" due to "political pressure and filial piety" (opinion section). As observed by Lan Duong (2005), this is why "mainstream" Vietnamese American filmmakers have tended to "distill the war and its after-effects through figuration, employing images that easily translate notions of misery, heritage, and history to a diasporic spectatorship" (pp. 2-3).…”

“…There is a younger cohort of Vietnamese American scholars who believe the trajectories of the Vietnamese American diasporic communities are changingnew subgroups such as gay, adoptee, and racially mixed Vietnamese Americans are marking their own histories, while a growing 1.5 and second generation of Vietnamese Americans are finding their own voices beyond the "survival and silence" mode of their parents' generation. And consequently the accepted formulas and narratives are no longer sufficient in covering or reflecting current transformations and dimensions within the community (Duong, 2005;Espiritu, 2005;A. Lam, 2008;V.…”