University of California San Diego Wedding Banquet Film Questions

Please answer the 2 questions A&B about the reading that are provided below. Your work will be checked for originality.

There is no upper limit to how many words you write, however you must write a minimum of 500 words total.

Answer the questions as well as you can. The goal is to demonstrate that you have done the readings carefully. The better you demonstrate your genuine engagement with the readings, the better your grade will be.

Please remember to use quotes from the readings in your answer. When you insert a quote from the readings, don’t forget to note exactly where the quote comes from. Please use footnotes or endnotes, and include the author, title, and page number of the source of your quote.

Do not copy and paste! Do not paraphrase! Please CITE !!!!!!!!!!

A. READ Lim, Song Hwee. “The Burden of Representation: Ang Lee’s The Wedding
Banquet,” in Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in
Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 2006: 69-98.
Answer the following questions: Do you think “Wedding Banquet” is realistic?
How would it be different today, now that gay marriage is legal for immigration?
What kinds of problems does the movie highlight about immigration, the law, and
wealth/poverty?

B. Read one of the following and summarize it in your own words:

Fran Martin, “Globally Chinese at the Wedding Banquet,” in Situating
Sexualities: Queer Representations in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture.
HK: University of Hong Kong Press, 2003: 141-162.

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