Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Shared History of Asian American Film and Video and Public Interest Media 1
5. 1. “Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell”: Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982 12
6. 2. The Center for Asian American Media and the Televisual Public Sphere 39
7. 3. Pathology as Authenticity: ITVS, Terminal USA, and the Televisual Struggle over Positive/Negative Images 55
8. 4. Dismembered from History: Racial Ambivalence in the Films of Gregg Araki 79
9. 5. Better Luck Tomorrow and the Transnational Reframing of Asian American Film and Video 97
10. 6. The Post–Asian American Feature Film: The Persistence of Institutionality in Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee and American Zombie 124
11. Afterword 134
12. Notes 137
13. Bibliography 145
14. Index 153