Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator -- Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories: Approaching -- Childhoods in Asian/American Cinema -- A Deluge of Delusion and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace -- The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways -- Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros -- The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissism and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose -- The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It -- The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death.
Summary:
"In The Movies of Racial Childhoods, Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century televisual and cinematic narrative representations of racialization and its impacts on the sovereignty of children, particularly Asian American and Asian children in independent global cinemas from the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children and youth through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification, focusing on the portrayal of experiences of precarity and grief, how they are racialized, and how they affect different sexual identities and capacities. The book uses psychoanalytic approaches to understand the psychic and bodily process of their particular coming of age in cinematic representations. Framed by Shimizu's grief over losing her own child, she explores parental attachment as it relates to their sense of self as well as attachment relationships toward images, specifically through an affective register"-- Provided by publisher.
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