The Chinese diaspora on American screens
Subtitle: race, sex, and cinema
By: Gina Marchetti
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781592135189; 9781592135202
Subjects: Motion pictures; Chinese in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: race, sex, and the Chinese diaspora in American film; title: In the black Pacific. Jackie Chan's black connections; title: Interview: Jeff Yang; title: Interracial romance in action: Romeo must die; title: Black in the Chinese diaspora: double-consciousness in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei Yi-Fang, remembering myself; title: Interview: Yvonne Welbon; title: Sexuality, gender and generation in diaspora. Queering the patriarchy: The wedding banquet, Toc storee, and Dirty laundry; title: Interview: Richard Fung; title: Guests at the wedding banquet: The Joy Luck Club, Double happiness, Siao Yu and Shopping for fangs; title: Interview: Wayne Wang; title: In pursuit of video hapa-ness: Banana split and Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among ghosts; title: Interview: Kip Fulbeck; title: Conclusion: screening the Chinese diaspora in the new millennium.