Identities in Motion
Asian American Film and Video
1st Edition
Published on 14. August 2002
304 pages
978-0-8223-8398-7 (ISBN)
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Considers questions of Asian American Identity and issues of homeland and home in Asian American film.
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Peter X Feng is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. He is the editor of Screening Asian Americans.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Locating Asian American Cinema in Discontinuity 1
I. Myths of Origin
Ethnography, Romance, Home Movies
1. The Camera as Microscope: Cinema and Ethnographic Discourse 23
2. Pioneering Romance: Immigration, Americanization, and Asian Women 38
3. Articulating Silence: Sansei and Memories of the Camps 68
II. Travelogues
4. Decentering the Middle Kingdom: ABCs and the PRC 103
5. Lost in the Media Jungle: Tiana Thi Thanh Nga's Hollywood Mimicry 128
III. Performing Transformation
6. Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing 151
7. We're Queer! We're Where? Locating Transgressive Films 170
8. Paying Lip Service: Narrators in Surname Viet Given Name Nam and The Joy Luck Club 191
Afterword: The Asian American Muse 209
Notes 215
Bibliography 259
Index 287
Introduction: Locating Asian American Cinema in Discontinuity 1
I. Myths of Origin
Ethnography, Romance, Home Movies
1. The Camera as Microscope: Cinema and Ethnographic Discourse 23
2. Pioneering Romance: Immigration, Americanization, and Asian Women 38
3. Articulating Silence: Sansei and Memories of the Camps 68
II. Travelogues
4. Decentering the Middle Kingdom: ABCs and the PRC 103
5. Lost in the Media Jungle: Tiana Thi Thanh Nga's Hollywood Mimicry 128
III. Performing Transformation
6. Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing 151
7. We're Queer! We're Where? Locating Transgressive Films 170
8. Paying Lip Service: Narrators in Surname Viet Given Name Nam and The Joy Luck Club 191
Afterword: The Asian American Muse 209
Notes 215
Bibliography 259
Index 287
