{"id":2530,"date":"2002-01-01T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2002-01-01T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:38:17","slug":"identities-in-motion-asian-american-film-and-video-by-peter-x-feng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/identities-in-motion-asian-american-film-and-video-by-peter-x-feng\/","title":{"rendered":"Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X. Feng [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Identities-in-Motion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32443\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Identities-in-Motion.jpg\" alt=\"Identities in Motion\" width=\"793\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Identities-in-Motion.jpg 793w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Identities-in-Motion-529x800.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a>This time, Feng gets the whole book to himself. And if you read nothing else about film, <em>read this introduction.<\/em> His questions about identity \u2013 who defines it, how it\u2019s defined, can it even be defined \u2013 will make you watch films in a whole new way. Split into three sections, Part I posits that films that depict our Asian American ancestors say more about contemporary Asian American politics than the historical periods they\u2019re supposed to represent. Part II presents Asian American filmmakers documenting their journeys to Asia. Part III challenges the inadequacy of labels such as Chinaman, lesbian and refugee, reflecting again on how identity is continuously negotiated, how it\u2019s continuously in motion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/naata-push-2002-2003-diasporic-proliferation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Diasporic Proliferation or: We&#8217;re Here, There and Everywhere &#8230; and Growing,&#8221; <em>Push &gt;<\/em>, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/2002-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable APA Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/2002-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/2002-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, September 26, 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2531\" title=\"Identities in Motion\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/identities-in-motion.jpg\" alt=\"Identities in Motion\" width=\"108\" height=\"158\" \/>This time, Feng gets the whole book to himself. And if you read nothing else about film, <em>read this introduction.<\/em> His questions about identity \u2013 who defines it, how it\u2019s defined, can it even be defined \u2013 will make you watch films in a whole new way. Split into three sections, Part I posits that films that depict our Asian American ancestors say more about contemporary Asian American politics than the historical periods they\u2019re supposed to represent. Part II presents Asian American filmmakers documenting their journeys to Asia. Part III challenges the inadequacy of labels such as Chinaman, lesbian and refugee, reflecting again on how identity is continuously negotiated, how it\u2019s continuously in motion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/naata-push-2002-2003-diasporic-proliferation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Diasporic Proliferation or: We&#8217;re Here, There and Everywhere &#8230; and Growing,&#8221; <em>Push &gt;<\/em>, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/2002-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable APA Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/2002-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/2002-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, September 26, 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,27,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,4825,1054,4829,51,4826,4830,29],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-nonfiction","category-pan-asian-pacific-american","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-center-for-asian-american-media","tag-film-studies","tag-identities-in-motion","tag-identity","tag-naata","tag-peter-x-feng","tag-race-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X. 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