Focusing on at least two documentaries produced by Asian American filmmakers.
1. Identify and illustrate filmmaking strategies to present Japanese Americans’ experiences of World War Two Internment. Compare and coontrast, what do they specifically strive to accomplish by doing so?
2. Appraise the strengths and risks or weaknesses of these filmmaking apporaches. You may opt to engage this as a response to the government produced World War Two films on the Japnese and Japanese Americans.
Film for the essay:
Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People(1984,Loni Ding)
Something Strong Within(1994, Robert Nakamura)
Pilgrimage(2006, Tadashi Nakamura)
Readings that must discuss in the essay see attachement.