Screening Asian Americans
ISBN-13:
9780813530246
ISBN-10:
0813530245
Edition:
None
Author:
Peter X Feng
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Format:
Library Binding
320 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780813530246
ISBN-10:
0813530245
Edition:
None
Author:
Peter X Feng
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Format:
Library Binding
320 pages
Summary
Screening Asian Americans (ISBN-13: 9780813530246 and ISBN-10: 0813530245), written by authors
Peter X Feng, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2002.
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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.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.
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