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Straitjacket Sexualities : Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies.
Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity--a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parreñ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Asian America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ethics and Responsibility: The Sexual Problems of Asian American Men in the Movies; 1. With Vulnerable Strength: Re-Signifying the Sexual Manhood of Bruce Lee; 2. On the Grounds of Shame, New Relations: Asian American Manhoods in Hollywood; 3. The Marvelous Plenty of Asian American Men: Independent Film as a Technology of Ethics; 4. Assembling Asian American Men in Pornography: Shattering the Self toward Ethical Manhoods; 5. Unbinding Straitjacket Sexualities: The Calm Manhoods of Asian American Male Hollywood Stars.
- Epilogue: Claiming the Power of Lack in the Face of Macho: Asian American Manhoods in the MoviesNotes; Bibliography and Suggested Readings; Index.