Countervisions

Sandra Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Darrell Y. Hamamoto is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology; Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of Television Representation; and New American Destinies: A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: On Asian American Film and Criticism --Darrell Y. Hamamoto Part I: Resignifying Asian American Bodies 2. When Dragon Ladies Die, Do They Come Back as Butterflies? Re-Imagining Anna May Wong --Cynthia W. Liu 3. Recuperating Suzie Wong: A Fan's Nancy Kwan-dary --Peter X. Feng Part II: Negotiating Institutional Boundaries 4. The Joy Fuck Club: Prolegomenon to an Asian American Porno Practice --Darrell Y. Hamamoto 5. Negotiating the Meaning of Access: Wayne Wang's Contingent Film Practice --Sandra Liu 6. Through the Mirror, Sideways --Lindsey Jang Part III: Critical Approaches to Representing Japanese American Internment 7. Re/membering Spectators: Meditations on Japanese American Culture --Kent A. Ono 8. Antidote for Collective Amnesia: Rea Tajri's Germinal Image --Glen Masato Mimura 9. The Gendering of Historical Trauma in Internment Camp Documentary: The Case of Steven Okazaki's Days of Waiting --Elena Tajima Creef Part IV: Exploring Form 10. Fighting Fire with Fire: Detournement, Activism, and Video Art --Valerie Soe 11. Hybrid Cinema by Asian American Women --Jun Xing 12. Character-Zone: A Conversation with Trinh T. Minh-ha --Gwendolyn Foster and Trinh T. Minh-ha 13. Bad Asians: New Film and Video by Queer Asian American Artists --Eve Oishi Part V: Going Beyond the Nation-Based Model: Diasporas and Hybrid Identities 14. No Mo Po Mo and Other Tales of the Road, Renee Tajima-Pena 15. "Unashamed to be so beautiful": An Interview with Celine Salazar Psarrenas --Theodore S. Gonzalves 16. The Wedding Banquet: Global Chinese Cinema and the Asian American Experience --Gina Marchetti 17. Cultural Identity and Diaspora in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema --Julian Stringer Distributors About the Contributors