Screening Asian Americans |
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Editor:
| Feng, Peter X. |
Contribution by:
| Feng, Peter X. Haenni, Sabine Franklin Wong, Eugene Kang, Laura Hyun Yi Gong, Stephen Tolentino, Rolando Lee, Helen Nichols, Bill Sturken, Marita Mehta, Binita Peckham, Linda Waugh, Thomas Guarino-Trier, Jennifer Chiang, Mark Gopinath, Gayatri |
Series title: | Rutgers Depth of Field Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8135-3025-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $38.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.