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Screening Asian Americans / Peter X. Feng.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Feng, Peter X., author.
Series:
Rutgers depth of field series.
Rutgers depth of field series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Asian Americans in motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 308 pages)
Place of Publication:
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Summary:
This essay collection explores Asian-American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Peter X Feng
Asian American Bodies
Filming ``Chinatown'': Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations
Sabine Haenni
The Early Years: Asians in the American Films Prior to World War II (excerpt, with a new introduction)
Eugene Franklin Wong
The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection
Laura Hyun-Yi Kang
Histories of Asian American Cinema
A History in Progress: Asian American Media Arts Centers, 1970-1990
Stephen Gong
Identity and Difference in ``Filipino/a American'' Media Arts
Rolando B. Tolentino
A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema
Helen Lee
Asian American Film and Video in Context
Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Bill Nichols
The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions
Marita Sturken
Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing
Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala
Binita Mehta
Surname Viet Given Name Nam: Spreading Rumors & Ex/Changing Histories
Linda Peckham
Good Clean Fung
Thomas Waugh
``From the multitude of narratives ... For another telling for another recitation'': Constructing and Re-constructing Dictee and Memory/all echo
Jennifer Guarino-Trier
Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet
Mark Chiang
On Fire
Gayatri Gopinath
Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Publisher Number:
2027/heb08265 hdl

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