Research Guides: Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Film and Television: Articles

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America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes articles from over 1,700 history journals published worldwide since 1964.

Asia-Studies Full-text Online
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Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text.
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AAPI Nexus Journal
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"AAPI Nexus is a national journal focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. AAPI Nexus draws from professional schools and applied social science scholars as well as practitioners and public policy advocates with the goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies' mission of serving communities and generating practical research."
Amerasia Journal
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"Since 1971, Amerasia Journal has been the leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. For almost five decades, Amerasia Journal has played an indispensable role in establishing Asian American studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service, and public discourse."
Asian Cinema
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"The journal’s broad aim is to advance understanding and knowledge of the rich traditions of the various Asian cinemas, thereby making an invaluable contribution to the field of film studies in general."
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
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"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) gives a long overdue voice, throughout the global intellectual community, to those concerned with Inter-Asia Processes. The journal includes discussion, reports and analysis from global critical circles, and especially from marginalised sites, with the aim of enhancing the communication and exchange between inter-Asia and other regions of the cultural studies world."
Journal of Asian American Studies
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"Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) explores all aspects of Asian American experiences through original articles detailing new theoretical developments, research results, methodological innovations, public policy concerns, and pedagogical issues. The Journal also publishes book, media, and exhibition reviews."

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Film Quarterly
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"Combining the best of scholarship and journalism since 1959, Film Quarterly publishes in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews on all aspects of cinema, media, and society—from film classics to emergent technologies. Film Quarterly is committed to advancing timely and intersectional approaches to the criticism and analysis of visual culture through exploring new perspectives on issues of diversity, race, gender, sexuality, and transnationalism."
Flow
"an online journal of television and media studies"
In Media Res
"dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship."
Realscreen
"the best in non-fiction"

Selected Articles on AAPI Film & Media

"Archives of Memory: Vietnamese American Films, Past and Present" / by Lan P. Duong
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In Film Quarterly, 2020, Vol. 73 (3): 54-58.
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Abstract: "Vietnamese American filmmaking must be seen in the context of a community's diasporic formations. As such, it maps out a politics of representation that encapsulates the issues of community and history that invariably striate the ways in which Vietnamese American films and videos have been produced, distributed, received, and archived. This article focuses on the role of the Viet Film Fest, in Orange Country, California, as a major site for the archiving of South Vietnamese and Vietnamese American cinematic memory. In examining how this vital archive is shaped by both transnational politics and local practices of commemoration, Duong proposes its status as an archive of memory for a refugee community that wants to rectify how its members have been represented by U.S. and Vietnamese national cultures in film, both in the past and in the present moment."
"Asian American Media Studies and the Problem of Legibility" / by Peter Feng
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In Cinema Journal, 2017, Vol.56 (3): p.125-130.
"Nam June Paik and Laurel Nakadate at the Margins of Asian American Film and Video" / by Jun Okada
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In Cinema Journal, 2017, Vol. 56 (3): p.136-141.
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Abstract: "In addition to experimental media's historical marginality in Asian American film and video, other boundary-defying issues, such as notions of the postracial and the transnational, are also important sites of inquiry not only in determining the definitive boundaries of Asian American film and video but also in locating its future directions. [...]what I am interested in at the moment is an alternative history of Asian American film and video filtered through the international avant-garde and its descendants within the larger art world as a way of rethinking the interaction of the transnational and the place of race in Asian American film and video."
"Racial Accents, Hollywood Casting, and Asian American Studies" / by Shilpa Davé
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In Cinema Journal, Vol. 56 (3), 2017: p.142-147.
"Toward a Third Wave: Why Media Matters in Asian American Studies" / by Renee Tajima-Peña
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In Journal of Asian American Studies, 2014, Vol.17 (1): p.94-99.