American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American Fiction
In Filipino and Filipino American fiction, the American Dream is a prevalent theme. Specifically, Filipinos’ exposure to the American Dream is facilitated through forms of American media and entertainment. These mediated American spectacles present the myth that the United States is superior in all...
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| description | In Filipino and Filipino American fiction, the American Dream is a prevalent theme. Specifically, Filipinos’ exposure to the American Dream is facilitated through forms of American media and entertainment. These mediated American spectacles present the myth that the United States is superior in all aspects. This is evident in Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels, Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters, Lysley Tenorio’s “Monstress,” and Bino A. Realuyo’s The Umbrella Country, in which Filipino characters internalize U.S. supremacist beliefs and what E.J.R. David calls “colonial mentality” by adopting Western American standards in their everyday lives. Their desire to emulate the American Dream is further seen in their inevitable migration from the Philippines to the U.S. These works of fiction demonstrate the relationship between media and culture, especially as theorized by Marxist critics such as Guy Debord and Stuart Hall who view media as one of the primary tools of dominant societies to disseminate and uphold hegemonic ideologies. By exploring how American media affects Filipinos in these works of fiction, one can see how media plays a significant role in some Filipinos’ beliefs about the Philippines and the U.S. especially in this contemporary age of globalization and mass media. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e14cdbc03347480f902b34481a67b71f2025-08-20T03:55:54ZengTaylor & Francis GroupComparative Literature: East & West2572-36182025-01-019111410.1080/25723618.2025.2524912American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American FictionPatrick Joseph Caoile0English Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USAIn Filipino and Filipino American fiction, the American Dream is a prevalent theme. Specifically, Filipinos’ exposure to the American Dream is facilitated through forms of American media and entertainment. These mediated American spectacles present the myth that the United States is superior in all aspects. This is evident in Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels, Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters, Lysley Tenorio’s “Monstress,” and Bino A. Realuyo’s The Umbrella Country, in which Filipino characters internalize U.S. supremacist beliefs and what E.J.R. David calls “colonial mentality” by adopting Western American standards in their everyday lives. Their desire to emulate the American Dream is further seen in their inevitable migration from the Philippines to the U.S. These works of fiction demonstrate the relationship between media and culture, especially as theorized by Marxist critics such as Guy Debord and Stuart Hall who view media as one of the primary tools of dominant societies to disseminate and uphold hegemonic ideologies. By exploring how American media affects Filipinos in these works of fiction, one can see how media plays a significant role in some Filipinos’ beliefs about the Philippines and the U.S. especially in this contemporary age of globalization and mass media.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/25723618.2025.2524912Filipino AmericanfictionAmerican dreammedialiterature菲律宾裔美国人 |
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| title | American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American Fiction |
| title_full | American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American Fiction |
| title_fullStr | American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American Fiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American Fiction |
| title_short | American Made: Hollywood and the “Technicolored Magnificence of the Great American Dream” in Filipino and Filipino American Fiction |
| title_sort | american made hollywood and the technicolored magnificence of the great american dream in filipino and filipino american fiction |
| topic | Filipino American fiction American dream media literature 菲律宾裔美国人 |
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