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The movies of racial childhoods : screening self-sovereignty in Asian/America

Title
The movies of racial childhoods : screening self-sovereignty in Asian/America / Celine Parreñas Shimizu.
Author
Shimizu, Celine Parreñas
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

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Description
xxi, 241 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"In The Movies of Racial Childhoods, Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century televisual and cinematic narrative representations of racialization and its impacts on the sovereignty of children, particularly Asian American and Asian children in independent global cinemas from the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children and youth through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification, focusing on the portrayal of experiences of precarity and grief, how they are racialized, and how they affect different sexual identities and capacities. The book uses psychoanalytic approaches to understand the psychic and bodily process of their particular coming of age in cinematic representations. Framed by Shimizu's grief over losing her own child, she explores parental attachment as it relates to their sense of self as well as attachment relationships toward images, specifically through an affective register"--
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Children in motion pictures
  • Asian American children
  • Asian Americans in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231) and index.
Contents
Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator -- Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories: Approaching -- Childhoods in Asian/American Cinema -- A Deluge of Delusion and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace -- The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways -- Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros -- The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissism and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose -- The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It -- The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death.
Call Number
MFL 24-3027
ISBN
  • 9781478025658
  • 1478025654
  • 9781478020912
  • 1478020911
LCCN
2023015285
OCLC
1396083585
Author
Shimizu, Celine Parreñas, author.
Title
The movies of racial childhoods : screening self-sovereignty in Asian/America / Celine Parreñas Shimizu.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231) and index.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Other Form:
Online version: Shimizu, Celine Parreñas Movies of racial childhoods Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478027775 (DLC) 2023015286
Research Call Number
MFL 24-3027
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