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- Book Title
- Asian America Through the Lens : History, Representations, and Identities
- Publication Name
- Asian America through the Lens
- Title
- Asian America through the Lens
- Subtitle
- History, Representations, and Identities
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 076199176X
- EAN
- 9780761991762
- ISBN
- 9780761991762
- Publisher
- Altamira Press
- Genre
- Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Film / History & Criticism
- Release Date
- 15/07/1998
- Release Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
- Series
- Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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While some Asian American films and filmmakers are beginning to achieve acclaim in mainstream U.S. culture, neither academic scholars nor society as a whole has sufficiently taken account of the history of this rich and growing body of cinematic production. In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun Xing accomplishes the colossal task of surveying Asian American cinema for the first time, allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge. Unique insight into Asian American experience in both mainstream and alternative film production is provided by textual analysis as well as by the voices of filmmakers and actors themselves. With constant attention to the specificities of Asian American histories and cultures, Xing engages a broad range of issues and theoretical perspectives, drawing insight from such bodies of scholarship as African American and Latino film studies, Marxian cultural theory, ethnic studies and the politics of representation, and post-structuralist and feminist discourses.
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Publisher
Altamira Press
ISBN-10
076199176x
ISBN-13
9780761991762
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038604743
Product Key Features
Book Title
Asian America Through the Lens : History, Representations, and Identities
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
3
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.A77h75 1998
Reviews
The second half of the book is an uncommonly valuable study (and filmography) of Asian Americans in documentaries, family dramas, and experimental films. The fact that only five or six of the films are as popular as Joy Luck Club--most films discussed are 'virtually unknown to the average American'--is both the drawback and the value of this book....This is a useful guide to worthwhile movies., Combining history, cultural studies, and film criticism, Professor Jun Xing has written a masterful review and analysis of Asian American cinema. Concerned with what goes on behind as well as in front of the camera, he deals with the politics and economics as well as aesthetics of Asian American filmmaking. The work probes the complexity of ethnic identity and the protean character of ethnic representations, posing as many questions as it provides answers., The sheer growth in number of Asian American independent films over the past few years requires a comprehensive critical survey of the work that is being generated....There is also a rapidly growing body of critical literature on Asian American film that Xing has mastered well and synthesizes for the reader. The author has 'done his homework' by providing an overview of related work on the topic, and in doing so carves out an important niche for his own contribution. His comparative analysis of the cinema practice of other nondominant groups such as African Americans and Latinos helps greatly in contextualizing Asian American film within the larger framework of marginalization or outright exclusion from the dominant media., It's a pleasure to read such a comprehensive and theoretically adept discussion of the emergence and development of an Asian American cinema practice and its attendant, critical discourses. For Xing's study comes at an opportune moment, since it is really needed in the classroom and the ongoing dialog between academics, critics, spectators, and students currently being generated by Asian American filmmaking. Asian American Through the Lens stands as the first project to cover such a broad critical and historical scope in its interrogation of Asian American cinema. Xing's book, then, makes a significant contribution to the broader multicultural project of 'unthinking Eurocentrism,' while defining the parameters of a vital, emergent cinema.
Table of Content
chapter 1 I: Introduction 1. Cultural Essentialism and Asian American Films chapter 2 2. Between a Weapon and a Formula chapter 3 3. Asian American Aesthetics chapter 4 II: Cinematic Asian Representation 1. Representation as Image chapter 5 2. Politics of Representation chapter 6 3. The Institution of Representation chapter 7 III. Documentaries as Social History 1. History as Subject: Personal Diary Films and Family Portraits chapter 8 2. History As Consciousness: Biographies and Communal Histories chapter 9 3. History as Representation: Social-Issue Documentaries chapter 10 IV: Hybrid Cinema by Asian American Women 1. Avant-Garde Film as History chapter 11 2. Time and Subjectivity chapter 12 3. Screen Space as Social Space chapter 13 V: Conclusion 1. A Cinema in Transition: "Cross-Over" Films chapter 14 2. Films from the Asian Diaspora chapter 15 Appendix: Theories on Ethnicity and Film chapter 16 Notes chapter 17 Bibliography chapter 18 Filmography chapter 19 Index
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
98-019694
Dewey Decimal
384/.8/089935073
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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