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Screening Asian Americans / Peter X. Feng.
- 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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