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A View from the Bottom

- Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Af: Tan Hoang Nguyen Engelsk Paperback

A View from the Bottom

- Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Af: Tan Hoang Nguyen Engelsk Paperback
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A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.
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A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9780822356844
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0822356848
Kategori: Filmhistorie, teori & kritik
Udg. Dato: 29 jul 2014
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Duke University Press
Oplagsdato: 29 jul 2014
Forfatter(e): Tan Hoang Nguyen
Forfatter(e) Tan Hoang Nguyen

Kategori Filmhistorie, teori & kritik

ISBN-13 9780822356844

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 154mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 29 jul 2014

Oplagsdato 29 jul 2014

Forlag Duke University Press

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