Reversing the Lens
Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film
Will be published approx. on 28. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-87081-725-0 (ISBN)
Description
Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of "critical visual thinking" and examine how racialization is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination. Not limited to classroom use, Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose race as a social construction in dialogue with other potential forms of difference and subject to political contestation.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is of exceptional value. . . . what the book does it does more usefully, more provocatively, than any other book."-P. H. Stacey, Choice
"Well written, concise, and descriptive. . . . this book will answer many questions as well as stimulate discussions. Highly recommended."
-Kim L. Morrison, MultiCultural Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Colorado
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87081-725-0 (9780870817250)
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Persons
Jun Xing is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University, and author of Asian America Through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identity, and Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919-1937.Lane Ryo Hirabayashi is The George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community at UCLA, and author and editor of numerous titles, including Reversing the Lens (UPC), Common Ground (UPC), The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp and Teaching Asian America: Diversity & the Problem of Community.
Content
; Foreword Preface Acknowledgments; Part I Beyond the Image I Introduction -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Jun Xing 2 Media Empowerment, Smashing Stereotypes, and Developing Empathy -Jun Xing; Part II Representing Racialized Communities 3 Video Constructions of Asian America: Teaching Montereys Boat People -Malcolm Collier and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi 4 American Indians in Film: Thematic Contours of Cinematic Colonization -Ward Churchill 5 El Espejo/The Mirror: Reflections of Cultural Memory -Carmen Huaco-Nuzum 6 Mississippi Masala: Crossing Desire and Interest -Adeleke Adeeko 7 Skin Deep: Using Video to Teach Race and Critical Thinking -Brenda J. Allen; Part III Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Representation 8 Confronting Gender Stereotypes of Asian American Women: Slaying the Dragon -Marilyn C. Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi; 9 Screens and Bars: Confronting Cinema Representations of Race and Crime -Lee Bernstein 10 The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text, and Image -Elisa Facio 11; The Matrix: Using American Popular Film to Teach Concepts of Eastern Mysticism -Jeffrey B. Ho 12 Beyond the Hollywood Hype: Unmasking State Oppression Against People of Color -Brett Stockdill, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David N. Pellow; Part IV Retrospect and Prospects 13 Self, Society, and the "Other": Using Film to Teach About Ethnicity and Race -Jun Xing 14 The Issue of Reinscription: Pedagogical Responses -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Marilyn C. Alquizola; Selected Filmography; List of Contributors; Index;