Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video

Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video
ISBN-10
0816648301
ISBN-13
9780816648306
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Author
Glen M. Mimura

Description

Asian American filmmakers and video artists have created a substantial, diverse, and challenging body of work that reimagines the cultural and political representation of Asian Americans. Yet much of this work remains unknown. Ghostlife of Third Cinema examines such potent issues as diasporic identity, historical memory, and queer sexuality through sophisticated readings of a wide range of film and video projects, includingTrinh T. Minh-ha's experimental documentary Surname Viet Given Name Nam;avant-garde works by Japanese American filmmakers Rea Tajiri, Lise Yasui, andJanice Tanaka; and queer videos exploring the intersection of race, nation, andsexuality by Pablo Bautista, Ming-Yuen Ma, and Nguyen Tan Hoang.

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