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Joe Bendel, employee in the book publishing industry and teacher of jazz survey classes at NYU, gives his thoughts on the up-and-coming Steven J. Kung film, A Leading Man. Bendel touches upon the importance of such films, like A Leading Man, in addressing the commonplace Asian stereotypes still integrated into our society.
“Despite Hollywood’s determination to sell its soul to China, a lingering institutional insensitivity to Asian type-casting and crude stereotypical jokes persists in the Industry.”