Straitjacket sexualities : unbinding Asian American manhoods in the movies / Celine Parrenas Shimizu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimizu, Celine Parreñas.

Series:

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian American men in motion pictures.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity-a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parreñas Shimizu-aggravates Asian American male sexual problems both on and off screen. Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies looks to cinematic history to reveal the dynamic ways Asian American men, from Bruce Lee to Long Duk Dong, create and claim a

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ethics and Responsibility: The Sexual Problems of Asian American Men in the Movies; 1. With Vulnerable Strength: Re-Signifying the Sexual Manhood of Bruce Lee; 2. On the Grounds of Shame, New Relations: Asian American Manhoods in Hollywood; 3. The Marvelous Plenty of Asian American Men: Independent Film as a Technology of Ethics; 4. Assembling Asian American Men in Pornography: Shattering the Self toward Ethical Manhoods; 5. Unbinding Straitjacket Sexualities: The Calm Manhoods of Asian American Male Hollywood Stars

Epilogue: Claiming the Power of Lack in the Face of Macho: Asian American Manhoods in the MoviesNotes; Bibliography and Suggested Readings; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804782203

0804782202

OCLC:

779828675