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The Hypersexuality of Race - Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (Paperback)
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The Hypersexuality of Race - Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (Paperback)
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In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a
shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American
women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates
moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of
Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative. Arguing
for a more nuanced approach to the mysterious mix of pleasure,
pain, and power in performances of sexuality, she advances a theory
of "productive perversity," a theory which allows Asian/American
women-and by extension other women of color-to lay claim to their
own sexuality and desires as actors, producers, critics, and
spectators.Shimizu combines theoretical and textual analysis and
interviews with artists involved in various productions. She
complicates understandings of the controversial portrayals of Asian
female sexuality in the popular Broadway musical Miss Saigon by
drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with some of the
actresses in it. She looks at how three Hollywood Asian/American
femme fatales-Anna May Wong, Nancy Kwan, and Lucy Liu-negotiate
representations of their sexuality; analyzes 1920s and 1930s stag
films in which white women perform as sexualized Asian characters;
and considers Asian/American women's performances in films ranging
from the stag pornography of the 1940s to the Internet and video
porn of the 1990s. She also reflects on two documentaries depicting
Southeast Asian prostitutes and sex tourism, The Good Woman of
Bangkok and 101 Asian Debutantes. In her examination of films and
videos made by Asian/American feminists, Shimizu describes how
female characters in their works reject normative definitions of
race, gender, and sexuality, thereby expanding our definitions of
racialized sexualities in representation.
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