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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777757403321

Autore

Mimura Glen M

Titolo

Ghostlife of third cinema [[electronic resource] ] : Asian American film and video / / Glen M. Mimura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8166-6787-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6352995073

Soggetti

Asian Americans in motion pictures

Asian American motion picture producers and directors

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

Diaspora, or modernity's other : theorizing Asian American identity and representation -- In the afterglow of regenerative violence : third cinema and Asian American media discourse -- Ghostlife of third cinema : Asian American spectrality and the experimentalist turn -- Uncanny memories : post-redress media in Japanese American history -- Diaspora sexualities : Asian American queer video in the world system.

Sommario/riassunto

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.For Mimura, Asian American cinema is the spectral, ghostly return of the international film movement known as Third Cinema. Tracing contemporary Asian American cinema as a continuation of Third Cinema's radical enterprise of making marginalized subjects visible in the First World, Ghostlife of Third Cinema examines such potent issues as diasporic identity, historical memo