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Shimizu Celine Parrenas Shimizu

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Date de parution

30 juillet 2007

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9780822389941

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative. Arguing for a more nuanced approach to the mysterious mix of pleasure, pain, and power in performances of sexuality, she advances a theory of "productive perversity," a theory which allows Asian/American women-and by extension other women of color-to lay claim to their own sexuality and desires as actors, producers, critics, and spectators.Shimizu combines theoretical and textual analysis and interviews with artists involved in various productions. She complicates understandings of the controversial portrayals of Asian female sexuality in the popular Broadway musical Miss Saigon by drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with some of the actresses in it. She looks at how three Hollywood Asian/American femme fatales-Anna May Wong, Nancy Kwan, and Lucy Liu-negotiate representations of their sexuality; analyzes 1920s and 1930s stag films in which white women perform as sexualized Asian characters; and considers Asian/American women's performances in films ranging from the stag pornography of the 1940s to the Internet and video porn of the 1990s. She also reflects on two documentaries depicting Southeast Asian prostitutes and sex tourism, The Good Woman of Bangkok and 101 Asian Debutantes. In her examination of films and videos made by Asian/American feminists, Shimizu describes how female characters in their works reject normative definitions of race, gender, and sexuality, thereby expanding our definitions of racialized sexualities in representation.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

30 juillet 2007

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822389941

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Duke University Press

Duke

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shimizu, Celine Parreñas. The hypersexuality of race : performing Asian/American women on screen and scene / Celine Parreñas Shimizu. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978-0-8223-4012-6 (cloth : alk. paper)

isbn978-0-8223-4033-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Asians in motion pictures. 2. Women in motion pictures. 3. Asian American women in motion pictures. 4. Erotic ﬁlms—History and criticism. I. Title. pn1995.9.a78s55 2007 791.43%6522—dc22 2006102426

CONTENTS

Acknowledgmentsix 1§ The Hypersexuality of Asian/American Women:Toward a Politically Productive Perversity on Screen and Scene 1 2§The Bind o :Performing and Consuming f Representation Hypersexuality inMiss Saigon30 3§ The Sexual Bonds of Racial Stardom:Asian American Femme Fatales in Hollywood 58 4§ Racial Threat or Racial Treat?Performing Yellowface Sex Acts in Stag Films, 1920–34 102 5§Queens of Anal, Double, Triple, and the Gangbang:Producing Asian/American Feminism in Pornography, 1940s–1990s 140 6§ ‘‘Little Brown Fucking Machines Powered by Rice’’ or Sex Tourists with Movie Cameras and Prostitutes without Movie Cameras:Politicizing the Bottom in Southeast Asian Sex Tourist Movies 185 7§ The Political Power of Hypersexuality in Asian American Feminist Films226 8§ New Horizons in Race-Positive Sexuality267 Notes275 Bibliography301 Index325

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book attempts to honor the work of many women of color whose experiences of race, gender, and sexual subjection led to the stories, im-ages, and analyses that sustain and fuel me. Thank you to the ﬁlmmakers, actors, and writers for crafting your voices in order to reach others. You provide myriad ways of better understanding each of us and the world in which we wrestle with power, pain, pleasure, and the struggles of everyday life. I am grateful to Helen Lee, Grace Lee, Machiko Saito, Veena Cabreros-Sud, Margaret Cho, Tracy Quan, Evelyn Lau, Hyun Mi Oh, Asia Carrera, Annabel Chong, and others whose presence makes possible this work. Profound thanks to Jerry Miller, who read the manuscript closely over the years and pushed me to imagine the possibilities, and to Rhacel Par-reñas, who continually o√ered important responses, suggestions, and sup-port. Very special thanks to Helen Lee, Bakirathi Mani, and Viet Nguyen for responding to the entire manuscript with great insight. For read-ing parts of the manuscript and o√ering advice, I most appreciate Sucheng Chan, Juliana Chang, Kelly Coogan, Jon Cruz, Nicole Fleetwood, Estelle Freedman, Shelley Lee, Kathleen McHugh, Chon Noriega, Eve Oishi, Louisa Schein, and Lok Siu. My advisors, colleagues, and the sta√ members at Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought and Literature really helped me and worked with me when I ﬁrst conceptualized this project. Members of my disserta-tion committee provided great mentorship. Harry Elam encouraged me to imagine this work and helped me to navigate the literatures I needed to

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