The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

by Celine Parreñas Shimizu

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In The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parre as Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children. Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification. She looks at how Asian American childhood is characterized...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1478020911

ISBN13:9781478020912

Release Date:January 2024

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.23 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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