Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Locating Asian American Cinema in Discontinuity 1
5. I Myths of Origin Ethnography, Romance, Home Movies
6. 1 The Camera as Microscope: Cinema and Ethnographic Discourse 23
7. 2 Pioneering Romance: Immigration, Americanization, and AsianWomen 38
8. 3 Articulating Silence: Sansei and Memories of the Camps 68
9. II Travelogues
10. 4 Decentering the Middle Kingdom: ABCs and the PRC 103
11. 5 Lost in the Media Jungle: Tiana Thi Thanh Nga’s Hollywood Mimicry 128
12. III Performing Transformation
13. 6 Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing 151
14. 7 We’re Queer! We’reWhere? Locating Transgressive Films 170
15. 8 Paying Lip Service: Narrators in Surname Viet Given Name Nam and The Joy Luck Club 191
16. Afterword: The Asian American Muse 209
17. Notes 215
18. Bibliography 259
19. Index 287