Ghostlife of third cinema : Asian American film and video / Glen M. Mimura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mimura, Glen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in motion pictures.

Asian American motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asian American filmmakers and video artists have created a substantial, diverse, and challenging body of work that reimagines the cultural and political representation of Asian Americans. Yet much of this work remains unknown.For Mimura, Asian American cinema is the spectral, ghostly return of the international film movement known as Third Cinema. Tracing contemporary Asian American cinema as a continuation of Third Cinema's radical enterprise of making marginalized subjects visible in the First World, Ghostlife of Third Cinema examines such potent issues as diasporic identity, historical memo

Contents:

Diaspora, or modernity's other : theorizing Asian American identity and representation

In the afterglow of regenerative violence : third cinema and Asian American media discourse

Ghostlife of third cinema : Asian American spectrality and the experimentalist turn

Uncanny memories : post-redress media in Japanese American history

Diaspora sexualities : Asian American queer video in the world system.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6787-X

OCLC:

646808291