The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Published by Duke University Press 2007

The Hypersexuality of Race

Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389941

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About this book

A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.

Author / Editor information

Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Associate Professor of Asian American, Film, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a filmmaker whose movies include The Fact of Asian Women (2002), which won four national festival awards; Super Flip (1997); and Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995).

Reviews

“The Hypersexuality of Race promises to be an influential and perhaps notorious book. Refusing to shy away from the complexity of sexuality and its contradictory meanings, Celine Parreñas Shimizu does not distinguish between positive (or politically correct) and negative sex acts but rather situates Asian (American) women’s expressions of sexuality in relation to racial formation, class consciousness, and other discourses of identity. She emphasizes context and contingency.”—Peter X Feng, author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video

“I find The Hypersexuality of Race nothing short of brilliant, a rigorous and galvanizing scholarly endeavor that promises to make an immediate impact on the fields of Asian American studies, feminist theory, theater and performance studies, and film and cultural studies.”—Daphne A. Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910

“The Hypersexuality of Race is an elegantly written, intellectually invigorating, and necessary addition to gender studies, Asian American studies, and moving images studies. Equally, as porn studies continues to gain serious academic interest, intelligent studies of race and sex like Parreñas-Shimizu’s volume will become indispensable.”

-- Jun Okada Journal of Asian American Studies

“An intriguing examination of the Asian femme fatale in cinema. . . . Guiding readers on a well-documented foray into the world of erotic cinema, Shimizu argues that these representations are expressions of a desire for better, more realistic representations of race and gender.”

-- Teresa Coates Curve

“The book is a rigorous and intriguing attempt to reframe and recapture the self-determination of Asian American women in film representations . . . . Parreñas-Shimizu should be commended for her bold attempt to relocate the debate on Asian American women in film.”

-- Valerie Soe Afterimage

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. The Hypersexuality of Asian/American Women: Toward a Politically Productive Perversity on Screen and Scene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Bind of Representation: Performing and Consuming Hypersexuality in Miss Saigon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. The Sexual Bonds of Racial Stardom: Asian American Femme Fatales in Hollywood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. Racial Threat or Racial Treat? Performing Yellowface Sex Acts in Stag Films, 1920–34 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
5. Queens of Anal, Double, Triple, and the Gangbang: Producing Asian/American Feminism in Pornography, 1940s–1990s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
6. ‘‘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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
7. The Political Power of Hypersexuality in Asian American Feminist Films Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
8. New Horizons in Race-Positive Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 64 b&w photos

eBook

Published: July 30, 2007
ISBN: 9780822389941