The Routledge companion to Asian American media / edited by Lori Kido Lopez and Vincent N. Pham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lopez, Lori Kido, editor.

Pham, Vincent N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in mass media.

Asian Americans and mass media.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This Companion offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media, from the long history of Asian American actors and stories that have been featured in mainstream film and television, to the birth and development of a distinctly Asian American cinema, to the ever-shifting frontiers of Asian American digital media. Contributor essays focus on new approaches to the study of Asian American media including explorations of transnational and diasporic media, studies of intersectional identities encompassed by queer or mixed race Asian Americans, and examinations of new media practices that challenge notions of representation, participation, and community. Expertly organized to represent work across disciplines, this companion is an essential reference for the study of Asian American media and cultural studies.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Asian American Media Matters; Postracial Media Environments, Industries, and the Relocation of Asian America; Outline of Chapters; Part I Theorizing Representation: Visions and Voices of Asian America; Chapter 2 Claiming a Voice: Speech, Self-Expression, and Subjectivity in Early Asian American independent Media; Voice, Subjectivity, and Asian American Identity; Voice and "Voice" in Early Asian American Independent Films; Syncretism, Asynchronicity, Voiceovers

Hearing the Negative Voice: Absence and MaterialityChapter 3 Diasporic Soundscapes of Belonging: Mediating Chineseness with Shanghai Restoration Project; Creating Shanghai Restoration Project; Unfixing Categories; Repackaging Chineseness; Rethinking Asian American Music; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Collectivity and Loneliness in Laurel Nakadate's Postracial Identity Aesthetics; The Rise of EthnoCommunications and Asian American Collectivity; Racializing Laurel Nakadate through Identity Aesthetics; Relationality and Scopophilia ; Loneliness as a Counter to Collectivity ; Conclusion

Chapter 5 Asian American Media Public Vernaculars: Debating the State of Asian American MediaPrivate Discussions to the Public Forum; Asian American Media as Storytelling: Making the Private Public; A Present/Future Paradigm Shift; (A)politicizing Asian American Stories and Storytelling; What Kind of Storytellers Are We?; Part II Asian American Media Production: Perspectives from Scholar-Practitioners; Chapter 6 The Coin of the Realm: Valuing the Asian American Feature-Length Film; Feature Films in Alternative Contexts; The "Class of 1997" and Reprogramming Festivals

Locating Race in Asian American Cinema: Dual Trajectories and BeyondChapter 7 Using the Tools of the YouTube Generation: How to Serve Communities through Asian American Film Festivals; Introduction: The New Media Landscape; Negotiating the Online-Offline Divide: An Operating Model for Film Festivals; Strengthening Relationships and Building Community; Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 8 Overcoming Barriers to Representation: Lessons from Asian American Women Directors; Face: Chinese Traditions and American Youth Culture; Saving Face: A Chinese American Lesbian Romantic Comedy

Advantageous: The Future of Gender and ClassConclusion; Chapter 9 "Perpetual Foreigners" in America: Transnationalism and Transformations of Asian American Cultural Identities in Three Documentary Films; First-Stage Asian American Films and the Narrative Turn; The "Perpetual Foreigner" ; Conclusion; Part III Hybrid Asian Americans: Media at the Margins; Chapter 10 Queer Experimental Asian American Media; Stan Brakhage: Disembodied Form; Gregg Araki: Formally Disavowing Embodiment as Identity ; Doom Generation and Splendor: Axis of Irresponsibility

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to asian american media.

ISBN:

9781317540847

1317540840

9781317540830

1317540832

9781315727745

1315727749

OCLC:

974372040

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.