Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Nguyen Hoang Tan's A View from The Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, a compelling new queer film studies text, begins its inquiry with the polemic that we must shift our perspective on race and sex to a "view from the bottom" so that we might render questions of agency, politics and ethics differently than what is currently available in our critical theorizations of sex, gender and race. Drawing upon feminist, queer Asian and film studies, Nguyen mobilizes an archive of filmic representations of gay male porn and other intimacies concerning Asian men in order to re-examine the sexual "scripts" of these moving images that signal different possibilities, powers and relationalities beyond the binary of exploitation and complicity.
Repository Citation
Kojima, Dai. "Review of A View from The Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, by Hoang Tan Nguyen." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss2/31