Reversing the Lens : Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Film

by Xing, Jun; Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo

• ISBN13: 9780870817243
• ISBN10: 0870817248
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of critical visual thinking and examine how racialization is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination. Not limited to classroom use, Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose race as a social construction that--in dialogue with other potential forms of difference--is subject to political contestation.

Author Biography

Jun Xing is professor of ethnic studies; director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I Beyond the Image
Introduction	3	(8)
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Jun Xing
Media Empowerment, Smashing Stereotypes, and Developing Empathy	11	(18)
Jun Xing
Part II Representing Racialized Communities
Video Constructions of Asian America: Teaching Monterey's Boat People	29	(14)
Malcolm Collier
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
American Indians in Film: Thematic Contours of Cinematic Colonization	43	(70)
Ward Churchill
El Espejo/The Mirror: Reflections of Cultural Memory	113	(14)
Carmen Huaco-Nuzum
Mississippi Masala: Crossing Desire and Interest	127	(16)
Adeleke Adeeko
Skin Deep: Using Video to Teach Race and Critical Thinking	143	(12)
Brenda J. Allen
Part III Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Representation
Confronting Gender Stereotypes of Asian American Women: Slaying the Dragon	155	(14)
Marilyn C. Alquizola
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Screens and Bars: Confronting Cinema Representations of Race and Crime	169	(16)
Lee Bernstein
The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text, and Image	185	(12)
Elisa Facio
The Matrix: Using American Popular Film to Teach Concepts of Eastern Mysticism	197	(16)
Jeffrey B. Ho
Beyond the Hollywood Hype: Unmasking State Oppression Against People of Color	213	(18)
Brett Stockdill
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
David N. Pellow
Part IV Retrospect and Prospects
Self, Society, and the ``Other'': Using Film to Teach About Ethnicity and Race	231	(10)
Jun Xing
The Issue of Reinscription: Pedagogical Responses	241	(8)
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Marilyn C. Alquizola
Selected Filmography	249	(10)
List of Contributors	259	(2)
Index	261