Countervisions

Name: Countervisions
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ISBN: 9781566397766

ISBN-10: 1566397766

ISBN-13: 9781566397766

Edition: 2000

Authors: Darrell Hamamoto, Sandra Liu

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Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, Countervisions examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. This anthology focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes. Essays of film criticism and interviews with film makers emphasize matters of cultural agency-that is, the practices through which Asian American actors, directors, and audience members have shaped their own cinematic images.One of the anthology's key contributions is to trace the evolution of Asian American independent film practice over thirty…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 8/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction: On Asian American Film and Criticism




Resignifying Asian American Bodies



When Dragon Ladies Die, do they Come Back as Butterflies? Re-Imaging Anna May Wong




Recuperating Suzie Wong: A Fan's Nancy Kwan-Dary




Negotiating Institutional Boundaries



The Joy Fuck Club: Prolegomenon to an Asian American Porno Practice




Negotiating the Meaning of Access: Wayne Wang's Contingent Film Practice




Through the Mirror, Sideways




Critical Approaches to Representing Japanese American Internment



Re/Membering Spectators: Meditations on Japanese American Cinema




Antidote for Collective Amnesia? Rea Tajiri's Germinal Image




The Gendering of Historical Trauma in Internment-Camp Documentary: The Case of Steven Okazaki's Days of Waiting




Exploring Form



Fighting Fire With Fire: Detournement, Activism, and Video Art




Hybrid Cinema by Asian American Women




Character Zone: A Conversation With Trinh T. Minh-ha




Bad Asians: New Film and Video by Queer Asian American Artists




Beyond "Nation": Diasporas and Hybrid Identities



No Mo Po Mo and Other Tales of the Road




"Unashamed to be so Beautiful": An Interview With Celine Salazar Parrenas




The Wedding Banquet: Global Chinese Cinema an the Asian American Experience




Cultural Identity and Diaspora in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema



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