Screening Asian Americans

by Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron, Peter X. Feng

Book Overview

This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in Peter X Feng's introduction, provides a context for the individual readings that follow. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813530245
• ISBN13: 9780813530246
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"