Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.
Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.
Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Dean of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene, also published by Duke University Press. Her films include The Celine Archive and 80 Years Later (Women Make Movies).
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Preface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233
Preface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233
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