Making Asian American film and video : histories, institutions, movements

Making Asian American film and video : histories, institutions, movements / Jun Okada.

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 (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Okada, Jun, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Series:Asian American studies today.
Subjects:
Asian Americans in motion pictures.
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Asian Americans in motion pictures
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the shared history of Asian American film and video and public interest media
  • Noble and uplifting and boring as hell: Asian American film and video, 1971-1982
  • The Center for Asian American Media and the televisual public sphere
  • Pathology as authenticity: ITVs, Terminal USA, and the televisual struggle over positive/negative images
  • Dismembered from history: the counternostalgia of Gregg Araki
  • Better luck tomorrow and the transnational reframing of Asian American film and video
  • Post Asian American feature film: the persistence of institutionality in finishing the game: the search for a new Bruce Lee and American zombie
  • Afterword.

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