Melissa Phruksachart
Biographic Data
| ID | 6364271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Phruksachart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Phruksachart |
| SIGNATURE | PHRUKSACHART M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bourgeois Cinema of Boba Liberalism
If what characterizes Asian American radical politics in 2020 is an articulation of the difference between, and interrelatedness of, the Asian diasporic elite and the migrant poor, the 2018 Asian American films Crazy Rich Asians and Searching achieved mainstream success by celebrating the emergence of the former. The media paratexts of Crazy Rich Asians used race-consciousness as putative resistance, engendering “messianic visibility”—an over-inv…
Asian Americans by Renee Tajima-Peña
Reviewed by: Asian Americans by Renee Tajima-Peña Melissa Phruksachart (bio) Asian Americans. Series Producer: Renee Tajima-Peña. PBS/WETA, 2020. 275 minutes. $29.99 DVD and $12.99 streaming. ISBN: 9781531712099. This five-part PBS documentary series on the history of Asians in the United States will become an essential part of the curriculum for ethnic studies and American history courses from high school to higher education. The team behind Asi…
Who will save us from the Pantsuit Nation? Reading liberal media in the age of Trump
While liberal feminists did not propel Hillary Clinton to a presidential victory in 2016, they made an impact on Trump resistance movements in early 2017. The widespread popularity of the Hillary-C
The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi
This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly. In contradistinction to popular readings that view Yunioshi as a regrettable mark on an otherwise untainted film, the essay shows how the character of Yunioshi served not merely as a…
Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen Cheng (review)
Reviewed by: Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen Cheng Melissa Phruksachart Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War, by Cindy I-Fen Cheng. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Xii + 272 pp. $49.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8147-5935-6. In this welcome new study, Cindy I-Fen Cheng reorients our understanding of what Mary Dudziak has termed “Cold War civil rights” by examining th…
The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi
This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly. In contradistinction to popular readings that view Yunioshi as a regrettable mark on an otherwise untainted film, the essay shows how the character of Yunioshi served not merely as a…
Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen Cheng (review)
Reviewed by: Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen Cheng Melissa Phruksachart Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War, by Cindy I-Fen Cheng. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Xii + 272 pp. $49.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8147-5935-6. In this welcome new study, Cindy I-Fen Cheng reorients our understanding of what Mary Dudziak has termed “Cold War civil rights” by examining th…
Who will save us from the Pantsuit Nation? Reading liberal media in the age of Trump
While liberal feminists did not propel Hillary Clinton to a presidential victory in 2016, they made an impact on Trump resistance movements in early 2017. The widespread popularity of the Hillary-C
The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi
This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly. In contradistinction to popular readings that view Yunioshi as a regrettable mark on an otherwise untainted film, the essay shows how the character of Yunioshi served not merely as a…
The Bourgeois Cinema of Boba Liberalism
If what characterizes Asian American radical politics in 2020 is an articulation of the difference between, and interrelatedness of, the Asian diasporic elite and the migrant poor, the 2018 Asian American films Crazy Rich Asians and Searching achieved mainstream success by celebrating the emergence of the former. The media paratexts of Crazy Rich Asians used race-consciousness as putative resistance, engendering “messianic visibility”—an over-inv…
Asian Americans by Renee Tajima-Peña
Reviewed by: Asian Americans by Renee Tajima-Peña Melissa Phruksachart (bio) Asian Americans. Series Producer: Renee Tajima-Peña. PBS/WETA, 2020. 275 minutes. $29.99 DVD and $12.99 streaming. ISBN: 9781531712099. This five-part PBS documentary series on the history of Asians in the United States will become an essential part of the curriculum for ethnic studies and American history courses from high school to higher education. The team behind Asi…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Asian americans (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)