아시아계 미국 이민자와 도시, 그리고 다문화주의: <누가 빈센트 친을 죽였는가?>에 나타난 디트로이트 인종갈등을 중심으로 = Asian American Immigrants, City, and Multiculturalism: Racial Conflicts of Detroit in Who Killed Vincent Chin?

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Asian American Immigrants, City, and Multiculturalism:Racial Conflicts of Detroit in Who Killed Vincent Chin?Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987), directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima, deals with the issue of Asian American immigrants’ racial conflict in the American society by juxtaposing two opposite aspects of Vincent Chin case in the 1980s. Composed in the collage form, the film approaches the truth by a series of fragmented and incomplete visual materials including interviews shot by the filmmakers (as well as by others), photos, TV talk shows, local television news, the behind scenes of news reels, cartoons, advertisements, and press conferences. It also employs a series of silent pauses between the scenes, which prevent the audience from their smooth suturing into the screen. In this process, the film intends to create an effect of positioning the audience in an interstice between the dominant ideology of the identity politics and the resisting power of the minority discourse. Through this film, we can see that the death of an Asian American immigrant by two white men’s irrational violence, which happened almost thirty years ago, still continues to disseminate its latent meaning in the current American society. It is not only because Vincent’s case remains as a tragic memory of Asian American immigrants in the white dominant society, but also because it has functioned as a moment to consolidate the Asian American community for their voice toward the mainstream society. In this sense, Who Killed Vincent Chin? provides a chance to rethink the political of multicultural society by the critical speculation on historical realism.

참고문헌 (Reference)

1 Christine Choy, "Who Killed Vincent Chin"

2 Michael Moore, "Roger and Me"

3 Nichols, "HIstorical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin" Rutgers UP 2002

4 McCreadie, "Documentary Superstars" Allworth Press 2008

5 Kibria, "Becoming Asian American" The Johns Hopkins UP 2002

6 Zia, "Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People" Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000