Celine Parreñas Shimizu

The Movies of Racial Childhoods

Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

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Produktbeschreibung

Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020912
• ISBN-10: 1478020911
• Artikelnr.: 67864540

Autorenporträt

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving
Mother-Author-Spectator  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories  1
1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime
Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace  41
2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in
Spa Night and Driveways  81
3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 
117
4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty
in Yellow Rose  151
5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It
  186
In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of
Rampant Death  208
Notes  213
Bibliography  223
Index  233