Making Asian American Film and Video : : History, Institutions, Movements /

Making Asian American Film and Video : : History, Institutions, Movements / / Jun Okada.

The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Okada, Jun,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Asian American Studies Today
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.) :; 12 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Shared History of Asian American Film and Video and Public Interest Media
  • 1. "Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell": Asian American Film and Video, 1971-1982
  • 2. The Center for Asian American Media and the Televisual Public Sphere
  • 3. Pathology as Authenticity: ITVS, Terminal USA, and the Televisual Struggle over Positive/Negative Images
  • 4. Dismembered from History: Racial Ambivalence in the Films of Gregg Araki
  • 5. Better Luck Tomorrow and the Transnational Reframing of Asian American Film and Video
  • 6. The Post-Asian American Feature Film: The Persistence of Institutionality in Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee and American Zombie
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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