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Identities in motion : Asian American film and video / Peter X Feng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feng, Peter X., 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans in motion pictures.
- Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considers questions of Asian American Identity and issues of homeland and home in Asian American film.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064165
- 9781283064163
- 1283064162
- 9780822383987
- 0822383985
- OCLC:
- 191855707
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