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Identities in motion : Asian American film and video / Peter X Feng.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.A77 F46 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feng, Peter X., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans in motion pictures.
- Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Myths of origin: ethnography, romance, home movies. The camera as microscope: cinema and ethnographic discourse ; Pioneering romance: immigration, Americanization, and Asian women ; Articulating silence: Sansei and memories of the camps
- Travelogues. Decentering the middle kingdom: ABCs and the PRC ; Lost in the media jungle ; Tiana Thi Thanh Nga's Hollywood mimicry
- Performing transformation. Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing ; We're queer! We're where? Locating transgressive films ; Paying lip service: narrators in Surname Viet given name Nam and The joy luck club
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822329832
- 0822329964
- OCLC:
- 49225409
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