Media, erotics, and transnational Asia
By: Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780822345596; 9780822345770
Subjects: Sex in mass media; Sex in popular culture; Mass media; Mass media and the arts
Description: Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of their producers and consumers. The essays in this volume cover a wide geographic and thematic range, and combine rigorous textual analysis with empirical research into the production, circulation, and consumption of various forms of media. Taken together, the essays offer fresh insights into research on gender, erotics, media, and Asia transnationally conceived. Contributors. Anne Allison, Tom Boellstorff, Nicole Constable, Heather Dell, Judith Farquhar, Sarah L. Friedman, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Purnima Mankekar, Louisa Schein, Everett Yuehong Zhang.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wayward erotics : mediating queer diasporic return / Martin F. Manalansan; title: For your reading pleasure : self-health ("ziwo baojian") information in 1990s Beijing / Judith Farquhar; title: Zines and zones of desire : mass-mediated love, national romance, and sexual citizenship in gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorf; title: Correspondence marriages, imagined virtual communities, and counter-erotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable; title: Flows between the media and the clinic : desiring production and social production in urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang; title: Dangerous desires : television and erotics in late twentieth-century India / Purnima Mankekar; title: Homeland beauty : transnational longing and Hmong American video / Louisa Schein; title: Another kind of love? Debating homosexuality and same-sex intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese film reception / Sara L. Friedman; title: Born under Western eyes : the politics and erotics of the documentary gaze in Born into brothels / Heather Dell; title: American geishas and Oriental/ist fantasies / Anne Allison.