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"""Asians on Demand heralds an original, new voice in Asian diasporic media studies. Challenging the uncritical embrace of respectable, normative, 'ready-made' images of Asians on global screens, Feng-Mei Heberer directs our attention to exciting video installations, performance art, and documentaries by Asian filmmakers, artists, and activists that advance searing critiques of the Asian on Demand while also showcasing the erotics, pleasures, and 'political desires' of queer, feminist, and diasporic Asian subjects at the beginning of the twenty-first century.""—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation   ""Feng-Mei Heberer exposes the twinned logics of Asian racialization and transparent mediation, laying bare their complicity with contemporary neoliberal regimes of commodified diversity. Wonderfully nomadic in its exploration of video practices and rich with acerbic critique, Asians on Demand is an essential resource for an expanded critical cartography of media, diaspora, and race.""—Steven Chung, author of Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema  "

""Asians on Demand heralds an original, new voice in Asian diasporic media studies. Challenging the uncritical embrace of respectable, normative, 'ready-made' images of Asians on global screens, Feng-Mei Heberer directs our attention to exciting video installations, performance art, and documentaries by Asian filmmakers, artists, and activists that advance searing critiques of the Asian on Demand while also showcasing the erotics, pleasures, and 'political desires' of queer, feminist, and diasporic Asian subjects at the beginning of the twenty-first century.""—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation   ""Feng-Mei Heberer exposes the twinned logics of Asian racialization and transparent mediation, laying bare their complicity with contemporary neoliberal regimes of commodified diversity. Wonderfully nomadic in its exploration of video practices and rich with acerbic critique, Asians on Demand is an essential resource for an expanded critical cartography of media, diaspora, and race.""—Steven Chung, author of Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema   ""As an interdisciplinary cross-cultural monograph on Asian video art and activism, Asians on Demand offers a new critical approach to Asian diasporic media studies, reflecting on the violence and hegemony hidden in media visibility.""—Film Quarterly    

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Feng-Mei Heberer is assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University.

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