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134613 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.42920 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2017-05 89 pages eng Tse, Kassidy Laurane Miller, April Rondilla, Joanne Department of English School of International Letters and Cultures Barrett, The Honors College Text This work examines three common practices—yellowface in Cloud Atlas (2012), whitewashing in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and absence in Firefly (2002)—employed in popular science fiction that represent Asianness and disregard the Asian body. Though the creators purport to have progressive ideals at the center of their production choices, their works call on Techno-Orientalist and Orientalist tropes and divorce them from the Asian body, implicitly continuing the Orientalist argument of Western supremacy even in representing Asianness. Cloud Atlas Television Film Asian American Studies Techno-orientalism Erasure Star Trek Whitewashing Orientalism Firefly Science fiction Yellowface Commodifying Asian Aesthetics and Eliminating Asian Bodies: Misrepresentations of Asianness in Science Fiction Film and Television