This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional modes, and encompassing a wide range of ethnicities (Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese). Covered in the discussion are filmmakers -- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ang Lee, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Wayne Wang -- and films such as The Wedding Banquet, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, and Chan is Missing.…mehr
This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional modes, and encompassing a wide range of ethnicities (Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese). Covered in the discussion are filmmakers -- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ang Lee, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Wayne Wang -- and films such as The Wedding Banquet, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, and Chan is Missing.
Acknowledgments Introduction Asian American Bodies Filming "Chinatown": Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations The Early Years: Asians in the American Films Prior to World War II (excerpt, with a new introduction) The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection Histories of Asian American Cinema A History in Progress: Asian American Media Arts Centers, 1970-1990 Identity and Difference in "Filipino/a American" Media Arts A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema Asian American Film and Video in Context Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin? The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing Emigrants Twice Displace: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala Surname Viet Given Name Nam: Spreading Rumors & Ex/Changing Histories Good Clean Fung "From the multitude of narratives...For another telling for another recitation": Constructing and Re-constructing Dictee and Memory/all echo Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet On Fire Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Asian American Bodies Filming "Chinatown": Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations The Early Years: Asians in the American Films Prior to World War II (excerpt, with a new introduction) The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection Histories of Asian American Cinema A History in Progress: Asian American Media Arts Centers, 1970-1990 Identity and Difference in "Filipino/a American" Media Arts A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema Asian American Film and Video in Context Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin? The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing Emigrants Twice Displace: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala Surname Viet Given Name Nam: Spreading Rumors & Ex/Changing Histories Good Clean Fung "From the multitude of narratives...For another telling for another recitation": Constructing and Re-constructing Dictee and Memory/all echo Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet On Fire Contributors Index
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