This is a collection of 15 articles by as many authors, on Asian American cinematic history, in three main sections: 1. Asian American Bodies; 2. Histories of Asian American Cinema; 3. Asian American Film and Video in Context. There is also an Introduction by the editor. 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

Feng, Peter X., ed.

Rutgers University Press

2002

2007.066.603