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Asian Americans in Film, More Movies - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Films concerning miscegenation constantly construct relative racial hierarchies (Marchetti)
      - The hypersexuality of Asian women in media is a form of establishing legibility. However, this construction of legible subjectivity then raises the question of how can Asian women harness sexuality as a form of knowing self, constructing racialized sexuality, and utility for political power. The process of creation is then based on this idea of "unknowability" (Shimizu)
        
        Productive Perversity - The idea that racialized sexuality performance as power in acknowledging how racialized sexuality is used to establish western conceptions of normativity but moving beyond that. how can we acknowledge this without denouncing perverse sexuality itself. (Shimizu)
        
        The idea of infinities of representation is similar to productive perversity -- in recognizing the possibilities of being more than a binary. How representation in cinema can aim to complicate binary notions of gender and sexuality. (Shimizu, Straitjacket Sexualities)
      - I like Hong's analysis of expanding his definition of queerness to race, class, ethnicity, and more markers of social difference. While certain cishet people within these communities might not identify as queer--community and kinship formatiions, as well as gender performativity and desirability are inherently wrapped up in all of these traits.
    - - Racialized gender/sex subjectivities for Asian American men represent how the power of the phallus, which has historically been denied in representations, represent a castration of manhood. Through this lens we see how heterosexual men are queered. Instead of simply reclaiming manhood though, I also hope we can deconstruct the idea of what manhood is in the first place. (Responding to Shimizu's Straitjacket seuxalities)
- - - - I feel like one of the biggest caveats for the idea of "representation" is the way marketability and capitalist frameworks dictate whats palatable.
    - - dehumanization through desirability (ex. white actors always playing the love interests)
    - - THIRD CINEMA TECHNIQUE -- purposefully using not state of the art film technology perhaps because of access but also as a purposeful statement on exclusion, access, and colonization. (Mimura)
        Reminds me of a paper I read on the travesti community in Latin America -- an identity of genderqueer women who purposefully do not ascribe to beauty standards. This is a political statement about their marginalization within their community and especially in a larger context of colonization, access, capitalism, etc.
  - - - bioessentialism and meritocracy between orient and occident