Asian America through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identities (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans)

Xing, Jun

ISBN 10: 076199176X / ISBN 13: 9780761991762

Edité par AltaMira Press (edition 0248th), 1998

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• Titre: Asian America through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identities (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans)
• Éditeur: AltaMira Press (edition 0248th)
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 076199176X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780761991762
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: 0248th.
• État de l'article: Fair

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Synopsis

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 poststructuralist and feminist discourses.

À propos de l?auteur

Jun Xing is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University. Trained as a cultural historian, he specializes in U.S. immigration history, American ethnicity, popular culture, and the history of cultural relations between the United States and East Asia. Dr. Xing is the author of Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender and Sexuality through Film, and Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919-1937.