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Author |
: Peter X. Feng |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813530253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813530253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Screening Asian Americans by : Peter X. Feng
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title "Cover to cover, Screening Asian Americans, a collection of 15 essays, is fabulous."--AsianWeek.com "This scholarly book uses 15 contributors to explore the various images of Asians, many of which have been negative."-Burlington County Times This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in Peter X Feng's introduction, provides a context for the individual readings that follow. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional modes, and encompassing a wide range of ethnicities (Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese). Covered in the discussion are filmmakers--Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ang Lee, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Wayne Wang--and films such as The Wedding Banquet, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, and Chan is Missing. Throughout the volume, as Feng explains, the term screening has a twofold meaning-referring to the projection of Asian Americans as cinematic bodies and the screening out of elements connected with these images. In this doubling, film representation can function to define what is American and what is foreign. Asian American filmmaking is one of the fastest growing areas of independent and studio production. This volume is key to understanding the vitality of this new cinema. A volume in the Depth of Field Series, edited by Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron, and Robert Lyons Peter X Feng teaches English and women's studies at the University of Delaware.
Author |
: Peter X. Feng |
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1388519968 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Screening Asian Americans by : Peter X. Feng
This essay collection explores Asian-American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character.
Author |
: Peter X Feng |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2002-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822329964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822329961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Identities in Motion by : Peter X Feng
DIVConsiders questions of Asian American Identity and issues of homeland and home in Asian American film./div
Author |
: Jun Xing |
Publisher |
: Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 076199176X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780761991762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Asian America Through the Lens by : Jun Xing
In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun Xing surveys Asian American cinema, allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge.
Author |
: Celine Parreñas Shimizu |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2023-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478027775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478027770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Movies of Racial Childhoods by : Celine Parreñas Shimizu
In The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children. Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification. She looks at how Asian American childhood is characterized in film through experiences of alienation and trauma and contends that childhood development requires finding freedom and self-sovereignty through agentic attunement. In analyzing films that focus on queer Asian American youth such as Spa Night (2016) and Driveways (2019) and those that explore the trauma of being an immigrant like Yellow Rose (2019) and The Half of It (2020), Shimizu demonstrates that films can prompt viewers to evaluate their own childhood development. They also allow the opportunity to understand the demands placed upon Asian American children, particularly in regard to race and sexuality. In this way, cinema becomes a vehicle for empowering our inner child and the children all around us.
Author |
: Jayjia Hsia |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015046833904 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asian Americans in Higher Education and at Work by : Jayjia Hsia
What drives Asian American youth to pursue excellence in higher education so relentlessly? This volume investigates the motivations, abilities, and achievements of the so called educational "model minority" from native born, fourth generation Japanese Americans to newly arrived Southeast Asian refugees. The educational performance of Asian Americans is one of today's fastest growing minority groups enrolled in higher education programs. This unique resource integrates empirical data from national testing programs, longitudinal studies and academic and extracurricular records along with the higher educational and career aspirations reported by Asian American students. It is the definitive guide for social scientists and educators by informing them of the reliability and validity of standard admissions tests for assessing the potential of Asian Americans students and their subgroups for success in higher education and careers.
Author |
: Grace J. Yoo |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 445 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461422266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461422264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Asian American Health by : Grace J. Yoo
Asian Americans encounter a range of health issues often unknown to the American public, policy makers, researchers and even clinicians. National research often combines Asian Americans into a single category, not taking into account the differences and complexity among Asian ethnic subgroups. The definition of Asian American derives from the U.S. Census Bureau’s definition of Asian, which includes peoples from all the vast territories of the Far East, Southeast Asia and the South Asian Subcontinent. While Census classifications determine demographic measurements that affect equal opportunity programs, the broad rubric “Asian-American” can never describe accurately the more than 50 distinct Asian American subgroups, who together comprise multifaceted diversity across cultural ethnicities, socio-economic status, languages, religions and generations. This volume rectifies that situation by exploring the unique needs and health concerns of particular subgroups within the Asian American community. It consolidates a wide range of knowledge on various health issues impacting Asian Americans while also providing a discussion into the cultural, social, and structural forces impacting morbidity, mortality and quality of life. The volume is designed to advance the understanding of Asian American health by explaining key challenges and identifying emerging trends faced in specific ethnic groups and diseases/illnesses, innovative community-based interventions and the future needed areas of research.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 47 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1112495110 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Asian Americans in Houston, Texas by :
Author |
: Erika Lee |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2015-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476739427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476739420 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Asian America by : Erika Lee
A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. “In her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States” (Huffington Post). The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both “despised minorities” and “model minorities,” revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country. Published fifty years after the passage of the United States’ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these “powerful Asian American stories…are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdue” (Los Angeles Times). But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an “epic and eye-opening” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
Author |
: Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza MPH |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 889 |
Release |
: 2009-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313347023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313347026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Praeger Handbook of Asian American Health by : Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza MPH
A team of noted specialists explains the health issues most common to Asian Americans, how and why treatment disparities exist, and the changes necessary to improve the health of this growing population. According to the most recent census, there are 11 million Asian Americans now, and their numbers are expected to triple by 2050. Hailing from more than 50 different countries and cultures, their health is affected by genetics, actions, beliefs, and prejudices that differ from those of others in the United States. In these timely volumes, a cross-disciplinary team of specialists explains the health issues and diseases most common to Asian Americans, how and why disparities in both disease development and treatment exist for them, and what changes must be made to improve the health of this growing group. This comprehensive collection includes vignettes and personal stories that illustrate the issues discussed and their impact on both individual and societal levels. Behavioral factors, including diet, smoking, and substance abuse are addressed. The text also describes traditional Asian American medical practices, as well as ways in which those practices have influenced American health care overall.