基本説明
Examines how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of their producers and consumers.
Full Description
Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of their producers and consumers. The essays in this volume cover a wide geographic and thematic range, and combine rigorous textual analysis with empirical research into the production, circulation, and consumption of various forms of media. Judith Farquhar examines how health magazines serve as sources of both medical information and erotic titillation to readers in urban China. Tom Boellstorff analyzes how queer zines produced in Indonesia construct the relationship between same-sex desire and citizenship. Purnima Mankekar examines the rearticulation of commodity affect, erotics, and nation on Indian television. Louisa Schein describes how portrayals of Hmong women in videos shot in Laos create desires for the homeland among viewers in the diaspora. Taken together, the essays offer fresh insights into research on gender, erotics, media, and Asia transnationally conceived.
Contributors. Anne Allison, Tom Boellstorff, Nicole Constable, Heather Dell, Judith Farquhar, Sarah L. Friedman, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Purnima Mankekar, Louisa Schein, Everett Yuehong Zhang
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Mediations and Transmediations: Erotics, Sociality, and "Asia" / Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein 1
1. Wayward Erotics: Mediating Queer Diasporic Return / Martin F. Manalansan IV 33
2. For Your Reading Pleasure: Self-Health (Ziwo Baojian) Information in Beijing in the 1990s / Judith Farquhar 53
3. Zines and Zones of Desire: Mass-Mediated Love, National Romance, and Sexual Citizenship in Gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorff 75
4. Correspondence Marriages, Imagined Virtual Communities, and Countererotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable 111
5. Flows between the Media and the Clinic: Desiring Production and Social Production in Urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang 139
6. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India / Purnima Mankekar 173
7. Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video / Louisa Schein 203
8. Another Kind of Love? Debating Homosexuality and Same-Sex Intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese Film Reception / Sara L. Friedman 233
9. Born under Western Eyes: The Politics and Erotics of the Documentary Gaze in Born into Brothels / Heather Dell 267
10. American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies / Anne Allison 297
References 323
Contributors 357
Index 359
