{"product_id":"the-movies-of-racial-childhoods-9781478020912","title":"The Movies of Racial Childhoods","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCeline Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Movies of Racial Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of * Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace\u003c\/i\u003e  41\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in \u003ci\u003eSpa Night\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDriveways\u003c\/i\u003e  81\u003cbr\u003e 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: \u003ci\u003eThe Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros\u003c\/i\u003e  117\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in \u003ci\u003eYellow Rose\u003c\/i\u003e  151\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in \u003ci\u003eThe Half of It\u003c\/i\u003e  186\u003cbr\u003e In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death  208\u003cbr\u003e Notes  213\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  223\u003cbr\u003e Index  233","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409015513431,"sku":"9781478020912","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020912.jpg?v=1730505103","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-movies-of-racial-childhoods-9781478020912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}