The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media
The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media, from the long history of Asian American actors and stories that have been featured in mainstream film and television, to the birth and development of a distinctly Asian American cinema, to the ever-shifting frontiers of Asian American digital media. Contributor essays focus on new approaches to the study of Asian American media, including explorations of transnational and diasporic media, studies of intersectional identities encompassed by queer or mixed race Asian Americans, and examinations of new media practices that challenge notions of representation, participation, and community. Expertly organized to represent work across disciplines, this companion is an essential reference for the study of Asian American media and cultural studies.
Contributors: Vanessa Au, Shilpa Dav, Brian Hu, Elaine H. Kim, L. S. Kim, Rachel Kuo , Lori Kido Lopez, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Kimberly D. McKee, Leilani Nishime, David C. Oh, Eve Oishi, Jun Okada, Vincent N. Pham, Takeo Rivera, Valerie Soe, Tony Tran, Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco, Grace Wang, and Myra Washington.
Lori Kido Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Womens Studies. She is the author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship (NYU Press, 2016).
Vincent N. Pham is an Assistant Professor of Civic Communication and Media at Willamette University, where he is also affiliate faculty in the American Ethnic Studies program. He is the co-author of Asian Americans and the Media with Kent A. Ono (Polity, 2009).
The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media
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Contents
Lori Kido Lopez and Vincent N. Pham
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Grace Wang
Jun Okada
Vincent N. Pham
Brian Hu
Vanessa Au
Elaine H. Kim
Valerie Soe
Eve Oishi
Kimberly D. McKee
Leilani Nishime
Myra Washington
Lori Kido Lopez
L. S. Kim
Rachel Kuo
Takeo Rivera
Tony Tran
David C. Oh
Shilpa Dav
Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco
Vanessa Au is an event content manager at Tableau. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Vanessa earned a PhD in Communication from the University of Washington. Her dissertation was titled Contemporary Popular Culture and the Politics of Asian American Representation, Resistance, and Cultural Production.
Shilpa Dav is Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (2013) and co-editor of Global Asian American Popular Cultures (2016) and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (2005).
Brian Hu is the artistic director of Pacific Arts Movement, presenters of the San Diego Asian Film Festival. He received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA and has published in Screen , Velvet Light Trap , Film Quarterly , and other journals. He teaches at the University of San Diego.
Elaine H. Kim is Professor of the Graduate School and Professor Emerita of Asian and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. She wrote, co-wrote, and co-edited ten books and co-produced and directed several films and videos on Asian American literature and culture. She is a recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award.
L. S. Kim researches and teaches in television studies, Asian American cultural production, racial discourse analysis, feminist film theory and criticism, media, and social change. She is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Rachel Kuo is a doctoral student at New York University in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication studying digital media organizing and racial justice activism.
Lori Kido Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship (2016).
Ming-Yuen S. Ma is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, and the Co-Chair of Intercollegiate Media Studies at the Claremont Colleges. He is the co-editor of Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video (2012), which won SCMSs Best Edited Volume Award in 2014. He is working on a new book, There Is No Soundtrack: Theorizing Sound Culture through Experimental Media .
Kimberly D. McKee is the director of the Kutsche Office of Local History and assistant professor in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University. She also serves as the assistant director/secretary for KAAN (the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network).
Leilani Nishime is an Associate Professor of Communication and an Adjunct Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Undercover Asians: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture and the co-editor of Global Asian American Media and East Main Street , and has published articles in numerous journals and collections.
David C. Oh received his PhD from Syracuse University. He is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He researches Asian/American representations in U.S. media, Korean American diasporas and mediated identities, and multiculturalism in Korean media.
