03439nam 2200709Ia 450 991082229700332120200520144314.00-8047-8220-210.1515/9780804782203(CKB)2670000000155734(EBL)868334(OCoLC)779828675(SSID)ssj0000664666(PQKBManifestationID)12269801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000664666(PQKBWorkID)10633353(PQKB)10312780(SSID)ssj0000652346(PQKBManifestationID)12287965(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652346(PQKBWorkID)10638939(PQKB)11665032(MiAaPQ)EBC868334(DE-B1597)563913(DE-B1597)9780804782203(OCoLC)1198931163(EXLCZ)99267000000015573420111128d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStraitjacket sexualities unbinding Asian American manhoods in the movies /Celine Parrenas Shimizu1st ed.Stanford, CA Stanford University Press20121 online resource (295 p.)Asian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7300-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 StarsEpilogue: Claiming the Power of Lack in the Face of Macho: Asian American Manhoods in the MoviesNotes; Bibliography and Suggested Readings; IndexDepictions 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 Parreñas 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 aAsian AmericaAsian American men in motion picturesMasculinity in motion picturesSex in motion picturesMotion picturesUnited StatesHistoryAsian American men in motion pictures.Masculinity in motion pictures.Sex in motion pictures.Motion picturesHistory.791.43/65211Shimizu Celine Parrenas1715597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822297003321Straitjacket sexualities4190685UNINA