The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

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The Movies of Racial Childhoods

Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

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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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Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Dean of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene, also published by Duke University Press. Her films include The Celine Archive and 80 Years Later (Women Make Movies).

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“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.”

-- David L. Eng, coauthor of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

“The Movies of Racial Childhoods is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.”

-- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

"[Celine Parreñas Shimizu] uses psychoanalytic approaches to cinema in exploring the alienation and joy felt by Asian American youth especially in terms of race and gender. These conflicts overlap with the youth’s simultaneous infantilization, sexualization, and adultification. Shimizu explores representations of childhood, race, gender, and sexuality as a mode of empowerment towards self-reflection and attunement in cinema and child-rearing both."
-- Gaby Messino UC Santa Cruz

"The movies of racial childhoods... is a poignant, keen, emotional, and moving interpretation, analysis, and dissection of the intersectional cultural complexes of Asian/America racial childhoods and young adults who navigate the mourning of death, parental absence, parental deportation, poverty, race, gender, gender expression, queer gender, age, sexuality, religion, immigrant border crossings, and acculturation stresses in Asian independent and Asian/America mainstream films."
-- Theodoric Manley Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Soziologie, Allgemeines

Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	vii
Preface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author- Spectator Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	ix
Acknowledgments Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	xix
Introduction: agents of our own lives, centers of our own stories Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	1
1 A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: race, sex, and class in American crime story: the assassination of Gianni Versace Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	41
2 The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: queer Asian American youth in spa night and driveways Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	81
3 Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: the blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	117
4 The Courage to Compose Oneself: healthy narcissism and self-sovereignty in yellow rose Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	151
5 The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: cultural complexes in the half of it Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	186
In Closing: the power of films about racial childhoods in the time of rampant death Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	208
Notes Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	213
Bibliography Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	223
Index Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	233

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027775

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