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As the foreign film market in the US continues to shrink, American distributors play increasingly larger roles as cultural gate-keepers. However, says Christina Klein, professor of literature and comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the newest generation in commercial Asian cinema eludes simple classification. Challenging older notions of foreign films as...

Chile’s native Mapuche people have struggled against the government since the arrival of the Spaniards. In those colonial days, the Mapuches were pushed south of Chile’s Bío-Bío river, where they retained formally recognized autonomy. After Chilean independence, however, they were forcibly incorporated into the state and, decades later, pushed onto reservations so as to make room for European...

Hollywood’s casting of two Asian Americans in lead roles has caught the attention of the non-US press. Writing for Outlook India, Seema Sirohi says that “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle,” which features one Korean American and one Indian American as its protagonists, “makes cinematic history as the first mainstream film with not one but two Asian leads as real as any other twentysomething...