The hypersexuality of race [[electronic resource] ] : performing Asian/American women on screen and scene / / Celine Parreñas Shimizu

• Autore: Shimizu Celine Parreñas
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6522
• Soggetto topico: Asians in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Asian American women in motion pictures; Erotic films - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-324) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The hypersexuality of Asian/American women : toward a politically productive perversity on screen and scene -- The bind of representation : performing and consuming hypersexuality in Miss Saigon -- The sexual bonds of racial stardom : Asian American femme fatales in Hollywood -- Racial threat or racial treat? Performing yellowface sex acts in stag films, 1920/34 -- Queens of anal, double, triple, and the gangbang : producing Asian/American -- Feminism in pornography, 1940s/1990s -- "Little brown fucking machines powered by rice" or sex tourists with movie -- Cameras and prostitutes without movie cameras : politicizing the bottom in Southeast Asian sex tourist movies -- The political power of hypersexuality in Asian American feminist films -- New horizons in race-positive sexuality.
• Sommario/riassunto: A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: The hypersexuality of race
• ISBN: 0-8223-4033-X; 1-282-92330-7; 9786612923302
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780603103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.