The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media

Lori Kido Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. She is the author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship (NYU Press, 2016). Vincent N. Pham is an Assistant Professor of Civic Communication and Media at Willamette University, where he is also affiliate faculty in the American Ethnic Studies program. He is the co-author of Asian Americans and the Media with Kent A. Ono (Polity, 2009).

Lori Kido Lopez and Vincent N. Pham, "Introduction: Why Asian American Media Matters"


I. Theorizing Representation: Visions and Voices of Asian America






Ming-Yuen S. Ma, "Claiming A Voice: Speech, Voice, and Subjectivity in Early Asian American Independent Media"







Grace Wang, "Diasporic Soundscapes of Belonging: Mediating Chineseness with Shanghai Restoration Project"







Jun Okada, "Collectivity and Loneliness in Laurel Nakadate’s Post-Racial Identity Aesthetics"







Vincent N. Pham, "Asian American Media Public Vernaculars: Debating the State of Asian American Media"




II. Asian American Media Production: Perspectives from Scholar-Practitioners






Brian Hu, "The Coin of the Realm: Valuing the Asian American Feature-Length Film"







Vanessa Au, "Using the Tools of the YouTube Generation: How to Serve Communities through Asian American Film Festivals"







Elaine H. Kim, "Overcoming Barriers to Representation: Lessons from Asian American Women Directors"







Valerie Soe, "’Perpetual Foreigners’ in America: Transnationalism and Transformations of Asian American Cultural Identities in Three Documentary Films"




III. Hybrid Asian Americans: Media at the Margins






Eve Oishi, "Queer Experimental Asian American Film"







Kimberly D. McKee, "Rewriting History: Adoptee Documentaries as a Site of Truth-telling"







Leilani Nishime, "Stunning: Digital Portraits of Mixed Race Families from Slate to Tumblr"







Myra Washington, "Black/Asian Hybridities: Multiracial Asian/Americans on The Voice"




IV. Asian American New Media: Digital Artifacts, Networks and Lives






Lori Kido Lopez, "Asian Ame