Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Purnima Mankekar  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9780822391326

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822345770

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822345596

Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology

Keyword： Mass media -- Social aspects -- Asia., Mass media and the arts -- Asia., Sex in mass media., Sex in popular culture.

Language： ENG

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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

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mediations and Transmediations Erotics, Sociality, and “Asia” - Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein

Chapter 1. Wayward Erotics: Mediating Queer Diasporic Return - Martin F. Manalansan IV

Chapter 2. For your Reading Pleasure Self-Health (Ziwo Baojian) Information in Beijing in the 1990s - Judith Farquhar

Chapter 3. Zines and Zones of Desire: Mass-Mediated Love, National Romance, and Sexual Citizenship in Gay Indonesia - Tom Boellstorff

Chapter 4. Correspondence Marriages, Imagined Virtual Communities, and Countererotics on the Internet - Nicole Constable

Chapter 5. Flows between the Media and the Clinic: Desiring Production and Social Production in Urban Beijing - Everett Yuehong Zhang

Chapter 6. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India - Purnima Mankekar

Chapter 7. Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video - Louisa Schein

Chapter 8. Another Kind of Love? Debating Homosexuality and Same-Sex Intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese Film Reception - Sara L. Friedman

Chapter 9. Born Under Western Eyes: The Politics and Erotics of the Documentary Gaze in Born into Brothels - Heather Dell

Chapter 10. American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies - Anne Allison

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