JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

Making women warriors —
a transnational reading of
Asian female action heroes

L.S. Kim

L.S. Kim is an assistant professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on racial discourse, postfeminism, and intertextuality. Her current book, Maid in Color: Racial Discourse and Representational Economy in American Television, examines the intersection of race and class relations embodied in a long history of television maids as integral (rather than marginal) to the idealized U.S. family. She is also developing writing on "New Orientalism" (theory and criticism about cross-cultural media forms, for example, the action genre, and anime).