Posted by marci.l.angevine@Vanderbilt.Edu on Thursday, October 23, 2014 in Activities Everyone.

Presented by: Rory Dicker, Associate Director, Women and Gender Studies
USA (2012) Dir: Debbie Lum. An eccentric modern love story about an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Lum, a Chinese-American filmmaker, documents and narrates from the early stages of the search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in America for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations, and the battle of the sexes weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this captivating documentary.  English and Mandarin with English subtitles. DVD. 82 minutes. Partial funding provided by the Department of Women and Gender Studies.