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The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

Shimizu, Celine Parreñas

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Asian American StudiesFilm StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1478025654
ISBN13: 9781478025658
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 12 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children. Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification. She looks at how Asian American childhood is characterized in film through experiences of alienation and trauma and contends that childhood development requires finding freedom and self-sovereignty through agentic attunement. In analyzing films that focus on queer Asian American youth such as Spa Night (2016) and Driveways (2019) and those that explore the trauma of being an immigrant like Yellow Rose (2019) and The Half of It (2020), Shimizu demonstrates that films can prompt viewers to evaluate their own childhood development. They also allow the opportunity to understand the demands placed upon Asian American children, particularly in regard to race and sexuality. In this way, cinema becomes a vehicle for empowering our inner child and the children all around us.

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