Acknowledgments
Introduction - Peter X Feng
ASIAN AMERICAN BODIES
Filming "Chinatown": Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations - Sabine Haenni
The Early Years: Asians in the American Films Prior to World War II (excerpt, with a new introduction) - Eugene Franklin Wong
The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection - Laura Hyun-Yi Kang
HISTORIES OF ASIAN AMERICAN CINEMA
A History in Progress: Asian American Media Arts Centers, 1970-1990 - Stephen Gong
Identity and Difference in "Filipino/a American" Media Arts - Rolando B. Tolentino
A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema - Helen Lee
ASIAN AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO IN CONTEXT
Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin? - Bill Nichols
The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions - Marita Sturken
Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing - Peter X Feng
Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala - Binita Mehta
Surname Viet Given Name Nam: Spreading Rumors & Ex/Changing Histories - Linda Peckham
Good Clean Fung - Thomas Waugh
"From the multitude of narratives . . . For another telling for another recitation": Constructing and Re-constructing Dictee and Memory/all echo - Jennifer Guarino-Trier
Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet - Mark Chiang
On Fire - Gayatri Gopinath
Contributors
Index