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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166654203321

Titolo

Media, erotics, and transnational Asia / / Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8223-9132-5

1-283-92504-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MankekarPurnima <1961->

ScheinLouisa <1957->

Disciplina

302.23/095

302.23095

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects - Asia

Mass media and the arts - Asia

Sex in mass media

Sex in popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wayward erotics : mediating queer diasporic return / Martin F. Manalansan -- For your reading pleasure : self-health ("ziwo baojian") information in 1990s Beijing / Judith Farquhar -- Zines and zones of desire : mass-mediated love, national romance, and sexual citizenship in gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorf -- Correspondence marriages, imagined virtual communities, and counter-erotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable -- Flows between the media and the clinic : desiring production and social production in urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang -- Dangerous desires : television and erotics in late twentieth-century India / Purnima Mankekar -- Homeland beauty : transnational longing and Hmong American video / Louisa Schein -- Another kind of love? Debating homosexuality and same-sex intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese film reception / Sara L. Friedman -- Born under Western eyes : the politics and erotics of the documentary gaze in Born into brothels / Heather Dell -- American geishas and Oriental/ist fantasies / Anne Allison.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays examines how mediated eroticism and



sexuality circulate across Asia and its diasporas, both reflecting and shaping the social practices of producers and consumers.