Global Asian American popular cultures / edited by Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davé, Shilpa, editor.

Nishime, LeiLani, editor.

Oren, Tasha G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in popular culture.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans--Social conditions.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Asian Americans--Migrations.

Transnationalism--Social aspects.

Popular culture--Social aspects.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Civilization, Modern--American influences.

Popular culture.

Transnationalism.

Social aspects.

Asian Americans.

Physical Description:

xi, 365 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints--such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and Sriracha hot sauce--have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of 'Asian' and 'Asian American' are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collection explores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren

Part I. Stars and celebrities

Trans-Pacific flows : globalization and hybridity in Bruce Lee's Hong Kong films / Daryl Joji Maeda

"I'm thankful for Manny" : Manny Pacquiao, pugilistic nationalism, and the Filipina/o body / Constancio Arnaldo

A history of race and he(te)rosexuality in the movies : James Shigeta's Asian American male stardom / Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Model maternity : Amy Chua and Asian American motherhood / Julia H. Lee

Youtube made the TV star : Kevjumba's star appearance on the Amazing Race / Vincent Pham and Kent A. Ono

David Choe's "Koreans gone bad" : the LA riots, comparative racialization, and branding a politics of deviance / Wendy Sung

Part II. Making community

From the Mekong to the Merrimack and back : the transnational terrains of Cambodian American rap / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

"You'll learn much about Pakistanis from listening to radio" : Pakistani radio programming in Houston, Texas / Ahmed Afzal

Online Asian American popular culture, digitization, and museums / Konrad Ng

Asian American food blogging as racial branding : rewriting the search for authenticity / Lori Kido Lopez

Picturing the past : drawing together Vietnamese American transnational history / Timothy K. August

Part III. Wading in the mainstream

Paradise, Hawaiian style : tourist films and the mixed-race utopias of U.S. empire / Camilla Fojas

Post-9/11 global migration in Battlestar Galactica / Leilani Nishime

"Did you think when I opened my mouth?" : Asian American indie rock and the middling noise of racialization / Douglas Ishii

Winning the bee : South Asians, spelling bee competitions, and American racial branding / Shilpa Davé

The blood sport of cooking : on Asian American chefs and television / Tasha Oren

Part IV. Migration and transnational popular culture

Curry as code : food, race, and technology / Madhavi Mallapragada

Bollywood's 9/11 : terrorism and Muslim masculinities in popular Hindi cinema / Deepti Misri

Hybrid Hallyu : the African American music tradition in K-pop / Crystal S. Anderson

Transnational beauty circuits : Asian American women, technology, and circle contact lenses / Linda Trinh Vo

Making whales out of peacocks : virtual fashion and Asian female factory hands / Christopher B. Patterson

Failed returns : the queer Balikbayan in R. Zamora Linmark's Leche and Gil Portes's Miguel/Michelle / Robert Diaz.

Notes:

"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479867097

1479867098

9781479815739

147981573X

OCLC:

926743358