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The hypersexuality of race : performing Asian/American women on screen and scene / Celine Parrenas Shimizu.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shimizu, Celine Parreñas.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Asians in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Asian American women in motion pictures.
Erotic films--History and criticism.
Erotic films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.
Contents:
The hypersexuality of Asian/American women : toward a politically productive perversity on screen and scene
The bind of representation : performing and consuming hypersexuality in Miss Saigon
The sexual bonds of racial stardom : Asian American femme fatales in Hollywood
Racial threat or racial treat? Performing yellowface sex acts in stag films, 1920/34
Queens of anal, double, triple, and the gangbang : producing Asian/American
Feminism in pornography, 1940s/1990s
"Little brown fucking machines powered by rice" or sex tourists with movie
Cameras and prostitutes without movie cameras : politicizing the bottom in Southeast Asian sex tourist movies
The political power of hypersexuality in Asian American feminist films
New horizons in race-positive sexuality.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-324) and index.
ISBN:
9786612923302
9780822340331
082234033X
9781282923300
1282923307
OCLC:
607755158

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