Abstract
Shyaporn Theerakulstit, also known by the name Shy, is a Thai-American actor and filmmaker whose short video clips focus on the topics of popular culture, mediated identities, performativity and parodism. Several of them humorously reflect on US discourses on Asianness, hyphenated identities and political correctness, drawing from the filmmaker’s diasporic perspective that enables him to simultaneously partake in and critique these discourses. This article aims to introduce Shy’s work and analyses three of his short films, concentrating on questions of cultural stereotyping, identity construction, and ethnicity as performance.
Boehler, Natalie