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  • Contributors

Sylvia Shin Huey Chong is associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, where she also directs the minor in Asian Pacific American studies. Her publications include The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era (Duke University Press, 2012) and articles on Sam Peckinpah, Oliver Stone, Michael Cimino, violence and pornography, the Virginia Tech massacre, American Orientalism, hopelessness in psychoanalysis, and American and Southern exceptionalism. She also coedited a recent special issue of the Asian American Literary Review titled "(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War." She is currently working on a book-length study on cinematic yellow face and its coemergence with social scientific discourses on race and culture in the mid-twentieth century.

Shilpa Davé is assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and an assistant professor of media studies and American studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and coeditor of Global Asian American Popular Cultures (New York University Press, 2016) and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2005).

Peter X Feng is associate professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke University Press, 2002), the editor of Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2002), and a coeditor of Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora (Temple University Press, 2009). He has published essays on Asian American cinema in Cineaste, Amerasia Journal, Jump Cut, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Cinema Journal.

Brian Hu is the artistic director of Pacific Arts Movement, the presenter of the San Diego Asian Film Festival. He received his PhD in cinema and media studies from UCLA and has published in Screen, Velvet Light Trap, Film Quarterly, and other journals. He teaches at the University of San Diego.

LeiLani Nishime is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington. She is the author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and coeditor of Global Asian American Popular Cultures (2016) and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (2005), both from New York University Press. Her work has appeared in several edited collections and journals, including Amerasia Journal, Cinema Journal, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, International and Intercultural Communication, MELUS, and Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Jun Okada is associate professor in the Department of English at State University of New York, where she teaches film studies and writing. Her book Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements was published by Rutgers University Press [End Page 153] in 2015. She has published essays and reviews in such journals as Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Velvet Light Trap, and Screen.

Vincent N. Pham is an assistant professor of communication in the Department of Civic Communication and Media at Willamette University. He received his PhD from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2011 and is coauthor of Asian Americans and the Media (Polity Press, 2009) with Kent Ono. He is coediting (with Lori K. Lopez) The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, set for release in spring 2017.

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, an award-winning filmmaker and film scholar, is professor of cinema at San Francisco State University. She has published numerous articles on race, sex, and cinema in Concentric, Frontiers, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, positions, Sexualities, Signs, Theatre Journal, Wide Angle, and Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Her books include The Feminist Porn Book (Feminist Press, 2013), Straitjacket Sexualities (Stanford University Press, 2012), and The Hypersexuality of Race (2007, Duke University Press). Third World Newsreel and Progressive Films distribute her internationally screened films. [End Page 154]

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