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Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism (Asian American History and Culture),New
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Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, 'Countervisions' examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. This anthology focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and crossover successes. Essays of film criticism and interviews with film makers emphasize matters of cultural agency that is, the practices through which Asian American actors, directors, and audience members have shaped their own cinematic images. One of the anthology's key contributions is to trace the evolution of Asian American independent film practice over thirty years.Essays on the Japanese American internment and historical memory, essays on films by women and queer artists, and the reflections of individual film makers discuss independent productions as subverting or opposing the conventions of commercial cinema. But 'Countervisions' also resists simplistic readings of 'mainstream' film representations of Asian Americans and enumerations of negative images. Writing about Hollywood stars Anna May Wong and Nancy Kwan, director Wayne Wang, and erotic films, several contributors probe into the complex and ambivalent responses of Asian American audiences to stereotypical roles and commerical success. Taken together, the spirited, illuminating essays in this collection offer an unprecedented examination of a flourishing cultural production.Darrell Y. Hamamoto is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of 'Nervous Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology', 'Monitored Asian Americans and the Poltics of Television Representation', and 'New American a Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration'. Sandra Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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