{"product_id":"the-hypersexuality-of-race-performing-asian-american-women-on-screen-and-scene-paperback","title":"The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian\/American Women on Screen and Scene - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCeline Parreñas Shimizu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Hypersexuality of Race\u003c\/i\u003e, Celine Parreñas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShimizu 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 \u003ci\u003eMiss Saigon\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Woman of Bangkok\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e101 Asian Debutantes\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hypersexuality of Race\" promises to be an influential and perhaps notorious book. Refusing to shy away from the complexity of sexuality and its contradictory meanings, Celine Parrenas Shimizu does not distinguish between positive (or politically correct) and negative sex acts but rather situates Asian (American) women's expressions of sexuality in relation to racial formation, class consciousness, and other discourses of identity. She emphasizes context and contingency.\"--Peter X Feng, author of \"Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCeline Parreñas Shimizu is Associate Professor of Asian American, Film, and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a filmmaker whose movies include \u003ci\u003eThe Fact of Asian Women\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), which won four national festival awards; \u003ci\u003eSuper Flip\u003c\/i\u003e (1997); and \u003ci\u003eHer Uprooting Plants Her\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.7 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130386288775,"sku":"9780822340331","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bdced7782cbb6ebc7191a4c711b399c3.webp?v=1732610369","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-hypersexuality-of-race-performing-asian-american-women-on-screen-and-scene-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}