Jun Okada

Making Asian American Film and Video

History, Institutions, Movements

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Produktbeschreibung

The words "Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS. In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565019
• ISBN-10: 0813565014
• Artikelnr.: 41749711

Autorenporträt

JUN OKADA is an assistant professor of English and director of film studies at the State University of New York, Geneseo.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Shared History of Asian American Film and Video and
Public Interest Media
Chapter 1: “Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell”: Asian American Film
and Video, 1971–1982
Chapter 2: The Center for Asian American Media and the Televisual Public
Sphere
Chapter 3: Pathology as Authenticity: ITVS, Terminal USA, and the
Televisual Struggle Over Positive/Negative Images
Chapter 4: Dismembered from History: The Counternostalgia of Gregg Araki
Chapter 5: Better Luck Tomorrow and the Transnational Reframing of Asian
American Film and Video
Chapter 6: Post–Asian American Feature Film: The Persistence of
Institutionality in Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee and
American Zombie
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index