Hypersexuality of Race Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene

Name: Hypersexuality of Race Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
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ISBN: 9780822340331

ISBN-10: 082234033X

ISBN-13: 9780822340331

Edition: 2007

Authors: Celine Parreï¿½as Shimizu

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In "The Hypersexuality of Race," Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative. Arguing for a more nuanced approach to the mysterious mix of pleasure, pain, and power in performances of sexuality, she advances a theory of "productive perversity," a theory which allows Asian/American women--and by extension other women of color--to lay claim to their own sexuality and desires as actors, producers, critics, and spectators. Shimizu combines theoretical and…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.74" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Hypersexuality of Asian/American Women: Toward a Politically Productive Perversity on Screen and Scene



The Bind of Representation: Performing and Consuming Hypersexuality in Miss Saigon



The Sexual Bonds of Racial Stardom: Asian American Femme Fatales in Hollywood



Racial Threat or Racial Treat? Performing Yellowface Sex Acts in Stag Films, 1920-34



Queens of Anal, Double, Triple, and the Gangbang: Producing Asian/American Feminism in Pornography, 1940s-1990s



"Little Brown Fucking Machines Powered by Rice" or Sex Tourists with Movie Cameras and Prostitutes without Movie Cameras: Politicizing the Bottom in Southeast Asian Sex Tourist Movies



The Political Power of Hypersexuality in Asian American Feminist Films



New Horizons in Race-Positive Sexuality


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