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Shimizu Celine |
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Titolo |
Straitjacket Sexualities [[electronic resource] ] : Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies |
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Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asian American men in motion pictures |
Masculinity in motion pictures |
Motion pictures - United States - History |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History |
Sex in motion pictures |
Music, Dance, Drama & Film |
Film |
Asian American men in motion pictures - History - United States |
Motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; 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 |
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Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade |
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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 ParrenĖas Shimizu-aggravates Asian American male sexual problems both on and off screen. Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies looks to cinematic history to reveal the dynamic ways Asian American men, from Bruce Lee to Long Duk Dong, create and claim a |
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