while only 2.6% of the ads of Mademoiselle represented any minority models. In terms even of sexual portrayals, then, Asian women are scarce (Examining the Asian, 1998).
William Wong (1994) has a more positive view of the situation. He reported in Media Studies Journal that the portrayal of the Asian community in the United States had improved, at least in the print media. He noted that television coverage still was spotty, marginal, and sensationalized, but that print portrayals were increasingly diverse and nuanced. He contrasted print portrayals, with its continuum of images, with television's continued emphasis on the good/bad polarity of images.
What about the images of women in feature films, including those released to the theaters and those made strictly for television? The images of Asian women in films has not significantly changed since the 1950s, according to Jessica Hagedorn (1994). The focus has primarily been on Asian woman as prostitute, in one form or another, whether as
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