Yellowface (2023)

June Hayward takes another writer's manuscript and then works remarkably hard to make her own conduct sound reasonable. The interest lies in that work of explanation: injury, entitlement and professional ambition keep becoming arguments in her defence. Kuang's brisk satire lets you recognise the methods without asking you to admire the speaker. Watch how June recruits the publishing world's real contradictions to support a version of herself that she wants others to accept.