Exhibition Review: At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America
2020; The Visual Studies Workshop; Volume: 47; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/aft.2020.473008
ISSN2578-8531
Autores Tópico(s)Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
ResumoBook Review| September 01 2020 Exhibition Review: At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California: May 25–October 20, 2019. Joshua Glick Joshua Glick Joshua Glick is an assistant professor of film and media studies and English at Hendrix College, and a fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 (2018), which was selected as a finalist for the Richard Wall Memorial Award. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (3): 99–106. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.473008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Joshua Glick; Exhibition Review: At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America. Afterimage 1 September 2020; 47 (3): 99–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.473008 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search The year 2019–20 marks a commemorative moment for Asian Pacific American media, honoring the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries for arts institutions, ethnic studies departments, and special exhibitions so crucial to the forging of an Asian Pacific American cultural identity and political consciousness. An array of recent projects offer an occasion for reflection as well as a rallying cry. To name a few, the five-hour PBS-WETA documentary series Asian Americans; Film Quarterly's dossier and two-part symposium “Asian American Film at Fifty”; and actor-activist George Takei's graphic memoir of his internment experience, They Called Us Enemy, explore the richness and polyvocality of Asian Pacific American history with an eye toward the critical uses of such history today.1 The exhibition At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America constitutes a landmark event within this broader wave of activity. The show celebrated fifty years since the birth of Visual... You do not currently have access to this content.
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