Global Asian American Popular Cultures / / ed. by Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime, Tasha Oren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Afzal, Ahmed,; Anderson, Crystal S.,; Arnaldo, Constancio,; August, Timothy K.,; Davé, Shilpa,; Diaz, Robert,; Fojas, Camilla,; Ishii, Douglas,; Lee, Julia H.,; Lopez, Lori Kido,; Maeda, Daryl Joji,; Mallapragada, Madhavi,; Misri, Deepti,; Ng, Konrad,; Nishime, Leilani,; Ono, Kent A.,; Oren, Tasha,; Patterson, Christopher B.,; Pham, Vincent,; Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.,; Shimizu, Celine Parreñas,; Sung, Wendy,; Võ, Linda Trinh,
• HerausgeberIn: Dave, Shilpa,; Nishime, LeiLani,; Oren, Tasha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 30 black and white illustrations

A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of “Asian” and “Asian American” are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Stars and Celebrities -- 1. Trans-Pacific Flows -- 2. “I’m Thankful for Manny” -- 3. A History of Race and He(te)rosexuality in the Movies -- 4. Model Maternity -- 5. YouTube Made the TV Star -- 6. David Choe’s “KOREANS GONE BAD” -- Part II. Making Community -- 7. From the Mekong to the Merrimack and Back -- 8. “You’ll Learn Much about Pakistanis from Listening to Radio” -- 9. Online Asian American Popular Culture, Digitization, and Museums -- 10. Asian American Food Blogging as Racial Branding -- 11. Picturing the Past -- Part III Wading in the Mainstream -- 12. Paradise, Hawaiian Style -- 13. Post-9/11 Global Migration in Battlestar Galactica -- 14. “Did You Think When I Opened My Mouth?” -- 15. Winning the Bee -- 16. The Blood Sport of Cooking -- Part IV. Migration and Transnational Popular Culture -- 17. Curry as Code: Food, Race, and Technology -- 18. Bollywood’s 9/11 -- 19. Hybrid Hallyu -- 20. Transnational Beauty Circuits -- 21. Making Whales out of Peacocks -- 22. Failed Returns -- About the Contributors -- Index