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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Asian America.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : ethics and responsibility : the sexual problems of Asian American men in the movies : Slanted screen (2006), Transgressions (2002), and Some questions for 28 kisses (1994)
- With vulnerable strength : re-signifying the sexual manhood of Bruce Lee : The big boss or Fist of fury (1971), The Chinese connection or Fist of fury (1972), Way of the dragon or Return of the dragon (1972), and Enter the dragon (1973)
- On the grounds of shame, new relations : Asian American manhoods in Hollywood : Eat a bowl of tea (1989), The wedding banquet (1993), and Sixteen candles (1984)
- The marvelous plenty of Asian American men : independent film as a technology of ethics : The debut (2003), Charlotte sometimes (2002), and Better luck tomorrow (2003)
- Assembling Asian American men in pornography : shattering the self towards ethical manhoods : Yellowcaust: a patriot act (2003), Masters of the pillow (2003), Dick Ho: Asian male porn star (2005), Asian pride porn (2000), Forever bottom! (1999) (2004), and the blog of Keni Styles (2010)
- Unbinding straitjacket sexualities : the calm manhoods of Asian American male Hollywood stars : The crimson kimono (1959), Map of the human heart (1993), Rapa nui (1994), and The jungle book (1994)
- Epilogue : claiming the power of lack in the face of macho : Asian American manhoods in the movies : Gran Torino (2008).