Screening Asian Americans

Author(s)

• Feng, Peter X.

Bibliographic Information

Screening Asian Americans

edited and with an introduction by Peter X Feng

（Rutgers depth of field series）

Rutgers University Press, c2002

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780813530246

Description

This essay collection explores Asian-American cinematic representations historically and socially, on or off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in the 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 film-makers 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 film-making is one of the fastest-growing areas of independent and studio production. This volume explores the vitality of the new cinema.

Table of Contents

Sabine Haenni on filming Chinatown * Eugene Franklin Wong on Asians in pre-World War II American films * L. Hyun-Yi Kang on interracial romance and the desiring of Asian female bodies * Roland B. Tolentino on Filipino/a American media arts * Jennifer Guarino on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee and Yunah Hong's Memory/All Echo * Peter X Feng on being Chinese American and becoming Asian American * Bill Nichols on Christine Choy and Renee Tajima's Who Killed Vincent Chin? * Mark Chiang on transnational sexualities in The Wedding Banquet * Gayatri Gopinath on Fire

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780813530253

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BA55909869
• ISBN:
  • 0813530245
  • 0813530253
• LCCN: 2001031785
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Brunswick
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 308 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1995.9.A77
  • DC21 : 791.43/6520395073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Asian American in motion pictures
  • LCSH : Asian Americans in the motion picture industry
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA24978142