Making Asian American film and video : histories, institutions, movements / Jun Okada.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Asian American studies today.
Main Author: Okada, Jun, 1973- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Asian American studies today.
Subjects:
Asian Americans in motion pictures.
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
Physical Description:x, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: the shared history of Asian American film and video and public interest media
  • Noble and uplifting and boring as hell: Asian American film and video, 1971-1982
  • The Center for Asian American Media and the televisual public sphere
  • Pathology as authenticity: ITVs, Terminal USA, and the televisual struggle over positive/negative images
  • Dismembered from history: the counternostalgia of Gregg Araki
  • Better luck tomorrow and the transnational reframing of Asian American film and video
  • Post Asian American feature film: the persistence of institutionality in finishing the game: the search for a new Bruce Lee and American zombie
  • Afterword.