Introduction : On Asian American film and criticism / Darrell Y. Hamamoto -- When dragon ladies die, do they come back as butterflies? Re-imagining Anna May Wong / Cynthia W. Liu -- Recuperating Suzie Wong : a fan's Nancy Kwan-dary / Peter X Feng -- The joy fuck club : prolegomenon to an Asian American porno practice / Darrell Y. Hamamoto -- Negotiating the meaning of access : Wayne Wang's contingent film practice / Sandra Liu -- Through the mirror, sideways / Lindsey Jang -- Re/membering spectators : mediations on Japanese American cinema / Kent A. Ono -- Antidote for collective amnesia? Rea Tajiri's germinal image / Glen Masato Mimura -- The gendering of historical trauma in internment-camp documentary : the case of Steven Okazaki's Days of waiting / Elena Tajima Creef -- Fighting fire with fire : Detournement, activism, and video art / Valerie Soe -- Hybrid cinema by Asian American women / Jun Xing -- Character zone : a conversation with Trinh T. Minh-Ha / Gwendolyn Foster and Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Bad Asians : new film and video by queer Asian American artists / Eve Oishi -- No mo po mo and other tales of the road / Renee Tajima-Peña -- "Unashamed to be so beautiful" : an interview with Celine Salazar Parreñas / Theodore S. Gonzalves -- The wedding banquet : global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience / Gina Marchetti -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema / Julian Stringer