Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation

by Darrell Y. Hamamoto

A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, 'Monitored Peril' illuminates the unstable relationship between the practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness of racialized discourse throughout U.S. society, especially as it is reproduced by network television.Hamamoto addresses a wide variety of issues facing diverse Asian American interracial conflict, conservative politics, U.S.-Japan trade friction, and post-colonial Vietnam. Through an examination of selected television programs from the 1950s to the present, he attempts to correct the consistently distorted view of network television. He proposes an engaged independent Asian American media practice, and calls for the expansion of public sector television.

326 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Bobby Roy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book that does a wonderful job of examining and analyzing the portrayal of Asian Americans in the media.