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The Chinese diaspora on American screens

Marchetti, Gina.

The Chinese diaspora on American screens race, sex, and cinema / [electronic resource] : Gina Marchetti. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (258 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: race, sex, and the Chinese diaspora in American film -- In the black Pacific. Jackie Chan's black connections -- Interview: Jeff Yang -- Interracial romance in action: Romeo must die -- Black in the Chinese diaspora: double-consciousness in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei Yi-Fang, remembering myself -- Interview: Yvonne Welbon -- Sexuality, gender and generation in diaspora. Queering the patriarchy: The wedding banquet, Toc storee, and Dirty laundry -- Interview: Richard Fung -- Guests at the wedding banquet: The Joy Luck Club, Double happiness, Siao Yu and Shopping for fangs -- Interview: Wayne Wang -- In pursuit of video hapa-ness: Banana split and Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among ghosts -- Interview: Kip Fulbeck -- Conclusion: screening the Chinese diaspora in the new millennium.

9781592135202


Motion pictures--History.--United States
Sex role in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Chinese in motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.C48 / M37 2012

791.43/6552