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Author Shimizu, Celine Parreñas, author.

Title The hypersexuality of race : performing Asian/American women on screen and scene / Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents The hypersexuality of Asian/American women : toward a politically productive perversity on screen and scene -- The bind of representation : performing and consuming hypersexuality in Miss Saigon -- The sexual bonds of racial stardom : Asian American femme fatales in Hollywood -- Racial threat or racial treat? Performing yellowface sex acts in stag films, 1920/34 -- Queens of anal, double, triple, and the gangbang : producing Asian/American -- Feminism in pornography, 1940s/1990s -- "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 -- The political power of hypersexuality in Asian American feminist films -- New horizons in race-positive sexuality
Summary A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index
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Subject Asians in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Asian American women in motion pictures.
Erotic films -- History and criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
Asian American women in motion pictures
Asians in motion pictures
Erotic films
Women in motion pictures
Film -- Sexualität -- USA.
Film -- Motiv -- Asiatin -- USA.
Sexualität -- Film -- USA.
Motiv (Kunst)
Film.
Sexfilm.
Asiatin -- Motiv -- USA -- Film.
Asiatin.
USA.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006102426
ISBN 9780822389941
0822389940