Every Tuesday and Thursday night this June on Turner Classic Movies, Peter X. Feng (who earned his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 1996) co-hosts (with Robert Osborne) Race and Hollywood: Asian Images in Film, a film series that “explores the variety of Asian characters depicted in American films.” Feng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies, Asian American Literature, and Cultural Studies at the University of Delaware, and the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video. “I tried to look for the kinds of stories that Hollywood returned to repeatedly, like the ‘Madame Butterfly’ story, and pick out some interesting variations in different decades,” Feng explains. Some 40 films will be shown in the series, which adds up to about eight hours of programming per night. Previous TCM films series have looked at African-American and gay/lesbian images in film.
From University of Iowa News Services comes this video package on last week’s Iron Chef cookoff and food symposium. Take a look!
And don’t miss the story The Gazette ran on the food symposium on Monday, April 7th.
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See a recipe preview from the Food in America Cookbook in the February 2008 issue of Edible Iowa River Valley.
Food in American Culture course and the Food in America Cookbook in the news:
“Food for Thought” by Amy Schoon; Students in a UI honors seminar discover how Americans are fascinated and defined by what they eat. Iowa Alumni Magazine, February 2008.
