{"id":2533,"date":"2002-01-01T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2002-01-01T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:38:16","slug":"screening-asian-americans-edited-and-with-an-introduction-by-peter-x-feng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/screening-asian-americans-edited-and-with-an-introduction-by-peter-x-feng\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening Asian Americans edited and with an introduction by Peter X. Feng [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Screening-Asian-Americans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32442\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Screening-Asian-Americans.jpg\" alt=\"Screening Asian Americans\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Feng\u2019s title is ingeniously layered: \u201cScreening Asian Americans\u201d refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened \u2013 how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how they are concealed (because to screen also means to be hidden from view). Fifteen contributors are divided into three sections: Part I focuses on how Asian bodies are represented on the screen, Part II is a historic look at how and where Asian American media and filmmaking fits into the larger cinematic industry, and Part III situates Asian American film in various \u201csociopolitical and aesthetic contexts, including the documentary tradition, avant-garde film and video, the Toronto art scene, Asian American literature, and diasporic audiences,\u201d but does not in any way attempt to regulate a limiting sense of coherence or definition. Cover to cover, <em>Screening Asian Americans<\/em> is fabulous.<\/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;\u00a0<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-2534\" title=\"Screening Asian Americans\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/screening-asian-americans.jpg\" alt=\"Screening Asian Americans\" width=\"128\" height=\"190\" \/>Feng\u2019s title is ingeniously layered: \u201cScreening Asian Americans\u201d refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened \u2013 how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how they are concealed (because to screen also means to be hidden from view). Fifteen contributors are divided into three sections: Part I focuses on how Asian bodies are represented on the screen, Part II is a historic look at how and where Asian American media and filmmaking fits into the larger cinematic industry, and Part III situates Asian American film in various \u201csociopolitical and aesthetic contexts, including the documentary tradition, avant-garde film and video, the Toronto art scene, Asian American literature, and diasporic audiences,\u201d but does not in any way attempt to regulate a limiting sense of coherence or definition. Cover to cover, <em>Screening Asian Americans<\/em> is fabulous.<\/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":32442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,27,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,4825,1054,51,4826,4830,29,4831],"class_list":["post-2533","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-identity","tag-naata","tag-peter-x-feng","tag-race-racism","tag-screening-asian-americans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Screening Asian Americans edited and with an introduction by Peter X. 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