Screening Asian AmericansA 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 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. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in Peter X Feng's introduction, provides a context for the individual readings that follow. 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. Throughout the volume, as Feng explains, the term screening has a twofold meaning-referring to the projection of Asian Americans as cinematic bodies and the screening out of elements connected with these images. In this doubling, film representation can function to define what is American and what is foreign. Asian American filmmaking is one of the fastest growing areas of independent and studio production. This volume is key to understanding the vitality of this new cinema. A volume in the Depth of Field Series, edited by Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron, and Robert Lyons Peter X Feng teaches English and women's studies at the University of Delaware. |
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Inhalt
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Identity and Difference in Filipinoa American Media Arts | 111 |
A Personal Genealogy of Korean | 133 |
Electronic Erasures | 173 |
Chan Is Missing | 185 |
in Mira Nairs Mississippi Masala 217 in Mira Nairs Mississippi Masala | 217 |
ExChanging Histories | 235 |
Good Clean Fung | 243 |
From the multitude of narratives For another telling | 253 |
Postmodern | 273 |
On Fire | 293 |
Contributors | 299 |
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Screening Asian Americans Peter X. Feng,Charles Affron,Mirella Jona Affron,Robert Lyons Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2002 |
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Seite 177 - This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which...
Seite 143 - The effect of mass migrations has been the creation of radically new types of human being: people who root themselves in ideas rather than places, in memories as much as in material things; people who have been obliged to define themselves — because they are so defined by others — by their otherness; people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur, unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves.
Seite 89 - The male unconscious has two avenues of escape from this castration anxiety: preoccupation with the re-enactment of the original trauma (investigating the woman, demystifying her mystery), counterbalanced by the devaluation, punishment or saving of the guilty object...
Seite 92 - conception," "return home" and so on; moreover all these acts are thought of as mutually identical, (i 18) Extending this outline, de Lauretis concludes, "In this mythical-textual mechanics, the hero must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female and indeed, simply, the womb
Seite 130 - The term ethnicity acknowledges the place of history, language and culture in the construction of subjectivity and identity, as well as the fact that all discourse is placed, positioned, situated, and all knowledge is contextual.
Seite 116 - We are all, in that sense, ethnically located and our ethnic identities are crucial to our subjective sense of who we are. But this is also a recognition that this is not an ethnicity which is doomed to survive, as Englishness was, only by marginalizing, dispossessing, displacing and forgetting other ethnicities. This precisely is the politics of ethnicity predicated on difference and diversity.
Seite 285 - These disparate worlds occasionally collide through individuals who manage to move, for the most part, stealthily, between these spaces. But it is the act of deliberately bringing these worlds closer together that seems unthinkable. Imagining your parents, clutching bento box lunches, thrust into the smoky haze of a South of Market leather bar in San Francisco is no less strange a vision than the idea of Lowie taking Ishi, the last of his tribe, for a cruise on Lucas
Seite 55 - Several times in attending Keith's theater here I have seen portions of the film entitled Patria, which has been exhibited there and I think in a great many other theaters in the country. May I not say to you that the character of the story disturbed me very much. It is extremely unfair to the Japanese and I fear that it is calculated to stir up a great deal of hostility which will be far from beneficial to the country, indeed will, particularly in the present circumstances, be extremely hurtful....
Seite 89 - Sadism demands a story, depends on making something happen, forcing a change in another person, a battle of will and strength, victory/defeat, all occurring in a linear time with a beginning and an end.
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Screening Asian Americans ACLS Humanities E-Book Depth of Field Series Rutgers depth of field series ʻOmeḳ śadeh |
| Herausgeber | Peter X. Feng |
| Mitwirkende | Sabine Haenni, Eugene Franklin Wong, Laura Hyun-Yi Kang, Stephen Gong, Rolando Tolentino, Helen Lee, Bill Nichols, Marita Sturken, Binita Mehta, Linda Peckham, Thomas Waugh, Jennifer Guarino-Trier, Mark Chiang, Gayatri Gopinath |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Rutgers University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0813530253, 9780813530253 |
| Länge | 308 Seiten |
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