Ep. 20 - The Karate Kid: 1984 & 2010
Jul 20, 2020
This week we take a look at The Karate Kid (1984) and its most recent retelling (2010) to discuss American appropriation and its erasure of Asian cultures, violence as a problematic coping mechanism, and how white writers are obsessed with fictionalizing and performing the black experience.
Time Stamps:
0:05:14 - The Karate Kid: 1984
0:51:06 - The Karate Kid: 2010
1:31:23 - Outro