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Author: Celine Parreñas Shimizu (Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, San Francisco State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780190865863
ISBN 10: 0190865865
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 24 January 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Dr. Shimizu's work has always been attuned to the potential of cinema to not only represent the social, but produce it. The Proximity of Other Skins is no exception and constitutes a profound and necessary continuation of her ongoing feminist inquiry. In this timely and vital text, Shimizu ambitions beyond the sensorial gridlock of the Western cinematic apparatus toward another way of seeing and living under the neocolonial visual regime. * Alok Vaid-Menon * This thought-provoking book examines efforts by contemporary filmmakers from the Philippines, Korea, and elsewhere to portray inequality within scenes of intimacy in ways designed to make viewers uncomfortable. Her highly original study grapples impressively with the challenges of forging empathy, compassion, and understanding across borders, and offers fresh insight into how film can illuminate the dynamics of power, privilege, and pleasure in global contexts. * Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University * Contemporary Asian and world cinemas are replete with narratives of self-shattering encounters with otherness. In this fascinating study, Celine Parrenas Shimizu illuminates the fraught intimacies conjured by the movies, revealing their ethico-political insights into some of our era's murkiest dilemmas. * Jose B. Capino, author of Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics * In The Proximity of Other Skins, Celine Parrenas Shimizu offers a powerful model of ethical intimacy that demands a global understanding of cinema, sexuality, and otherness. Through a series of insightful and passionate readings, she challenges us to see movies - and ourselves - with greater rigor and political complexity. As with her other books, I come away from this one with a finer grasp of how cinema, seen through her illuminating vision, can provoke and unsettle in the best ways. * Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sympathizer *
Author Information
Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She is the author of The Hypersexuality of Race (2007), Straitjacket Sexualities (2012) and co-editor of The Feminist Porn Book (2013) and The Unwatchability of Whiteness, a special issue of Asian Diasporas and Visual Cultures of the Americas (2018). Her films include The Celine Archive (2019), The Fact of Asian Women (2004) and Birthright: Mothering Across Difference (2009). She has written numerous peer-reviewed articles in the top journals in the fields of cinema, performance, ethnic, feminist, sexuality studies and transnational popular culture in Asia and Asian America including Cinema Journal, Concentric, Film Quarterly, Frontiers, Journal of Asian American Studies, positions, Sexualities, Signs, Theater Journal, and Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
