Berry / Martin / Yue Mobile Cultures

New Media in Queer Asia
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8438-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing passions: television and cultural power

A collection of essays on the uses of new media in the formation of East Asian and Pacific queer identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Chris

Martin, Fran

Yue, Audrey

Spigel, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1

I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections

I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, “Globalization," and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21

Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52

Guided Fan Fiction: Western “Readings" of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70

Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace in 1990s Taiwan and Korea / Chris Berry and Fran Martin 87

Queerly Embodying the Good and the Normal / David Mullaly 115

II. Mobile Sites: New Screens, New Scenes

Singaporean Queering of the Internet: Toward a New Form of Cultural Transmission of Rights Discourse / Baden Offord 133

Pop and ma: The Landscape of Japanese Commodity Characters and Subjectivity / Larissa Hjorth 158

From Khush List to Gay Bombay: Virtual Webs of Real People / Sandip Roy 180

III. Circuits: Regional Zones

Queer Voyeurism and the Pussy-Matrix in Shu Lea Cheang's Japanese Pornography / Katrien Jacobs 201

Sexing the City: Malaysia's New “Cyberlaws" and Cyberjaya's Queer Success / Olivia Khoo 222

Paging “New Asia": Sambal Is a Feedback Loop, Coconut Is a Code, Rice Is a System / Audrey Yue 245

Bibliography 267

Contributors 293

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Berry is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire and editor of several books including Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China’s Fifth Generation, published by Duke University Press.Fran Martin is Lecturer in the Cinema Studies Program at La Trobe University in Australia.Audrey Yue is Lecturer in the Cultural Studies Program and Department of English at the University of Melbourne in Australia.