Shimizu Celine Parrenas Shimizu

Movies of Racial Childhoods (eBook, PDF)

Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parrenas 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478027775
• Artikelnr.: 72419428

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