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Traversing classical Hollywood to the cinema of Park Chan-wook, Gina Kim, and Ramona Diaz, and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza, The Proximity of Other Skins looks at transnational films that achieved global prominence by presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex.
About the author
Professor 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.
Summary
Traversing classical Hollywood to the cinema of Park Chan-wook, Gina Kim, and Ramona Diaz, and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza, The Proximity of Other Skins looks at transnational films that achieved global prominence by presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex.
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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.
