Screening Asian Americans / edited and with an introduction by Peter X. Feng.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title "Cover to cover, Screening Asian Americans, a collection of 15 essays, is fabulous."--AsianWeek.com "This scholarly book uses 15 contributors to explore the various images of Asians, many of which have been negative."-Burlington County Times Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Feng, Peter X., 1966- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2002.
Series:	Rutgers depth of field series.
Subjects:	Asian Americans in motion pictures. Asian Americans in the motion picture industry. Asian Americans. Asian Americans Asian Americans in motion pictures Asian Americans in the motion picture industry Film. Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

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
A history of 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
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 / Peter X Feng
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.

Screening Asian Americans / edited and with an introduction by Peter X. Feng.

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