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Apr 30, 2023 · Named Nacirema Productions (hint: it’s “American” spelled backwards), the company produced several B movies, ranging from westerns like “Sierra Stranger” to Japan-themed films like “Tokyo After Dark.”
Apr 25, 2024 · Triumphed as the first “Nisei production company,” Nacirema Productions offered the jaded Japanese American community a rags-to-riches story of a Nisei who emerged from the camps as a movie...
On Jan. 22, 1956, The Los Angeles Times reported on the latest production company to appear in Hollywood: a firm formed and backed by Japanese Americans.Named Nacirema Productions (hint: it’s “American” spelled backwards), the company produced several B movies, ranging from westerns like “Sierra Stranger” to Japan-themed films like ...
View full company info for Nacirema Productions. 1. Undersea Girl (1957) Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama. 5.8. Rate this. A woman reporter, a navy investigator, and a heavyset police detective come across a gang which scuttled a ship in order to loot her later, underwater, for a Navy money consignment.
Some of the popular aspects of Nacirema culture include: medicine men and women (doctors, psychiatrists, and pharmacists), a charm-box (medicine cabinet), the mouth-rite ritual (brushing teeth), and a cultural hero known as Notgnihsaw (Washington spelled backwards).
These new temples are just one example of how cultures are always changing, and over the past 70 years, the Nacirema have changed dramatically. For the Nacirema of Miner’s study in 1956, even simple black-and-white televisions were a new and exotic technology.
Sep 16, 2023 · It’s 1964 Montgomery, Alabama, and the Nacirema Society prepares for its annual introduction of six elegant African-American debutantes to a world of prosperity, privilege and social responsibility.
