Celine Parreñas Shimizu (born December 28, 1969) is an award-winning
filmmaker and film scholar. She is well known for her work on race,
sexuality and representations and is currently a Professor of
Cinema.Shimizu is the daughter of political refugees from the
Philippines. Her family relocated to Boston when she was in her early
teens. She attended the University of California at Berkeley and
received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies in 1992. She has an M.F.A. in Film
Directing and Production from the University of California at Los
Angeles and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and
Literature. She is married to Daniel P Shimizu with whom she has two
sons. She is a grieving mother whose youngest son Lakas suddenly died
in 2013 from a common virus that attacked his heart within 24
hours.Shimizu is a Professor of Cinema at the School of Cinema in San
Francisco State University and for fifteen years, was Professor of
Film and Performance Studies in the Asian American, Comparative
Literature, Feminist, and Film and Media Studies Departments at the
University of California at Santa Barbara. She is well known for her
work on race, sexuality and representations.Her sole-authored books
include The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global
Cinemas (forthcoming in December 2019 from Oxford University Press),
Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the
Movies The book examines transnational films and their representations
of intimacy across radical inequality. The book studies scenes of
cinematic intimacy in the forging of ethical manhoods on and off
screen for Asian American men. Her first book The Hypersexuality of
Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene won the
Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American
Studies. In it, she analyzes hypersexual representations of Asian
American women in various media including industry and independent
film, pornography and feminist video. She edited the book The Feminist
Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure along with Constance
Penley, Mireille Miller-Young, and Tristan Taormino.
filmmaker and film scholar. She is well known for her work on race,
sexuality and representations and is currently a Professor of
Cinema.Shimizu is the daughter of political refugees from the
Philippines. Her family relocated to Boston when she was in her early
teens. She attended the University of California at Berkeley and
received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies in 1992. She has an M.F.A. in Film
Directing and Production from the University of California at Los
Angeles and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and
Literature. She is married to Daniel P Shimizu with whom she has two
sons. She is a grieving mother whose youngest son Lakas suddenly died
in 2013 from a common virus that attacked his heart within 24
hours.Shimizu is a Professor of Cinema at the School of Cinema in San
Francisco State University and for fifteen years, was Professor of
Film and Performance Studies in the Asian American, Comparative
Literature, Feminist, and Film and Media Studies Departments at the
University of California at Santa Barbara. She is well known for her
work on race, sexuality and representations.Her sole-authored books
include The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global
Cinemas (forthcoming in December 2019 from Oxford University Press),
Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the
Movies The book examines transnational films and their representations
of intimacy across radical inequality. The book studies scenes of
cinematic intimacy in the forging of ethical manhoods on and off
screen for Asian American men. Her first book The Hypersexuality of
Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene won the
Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American
Studies. In it, she analyzes hypersexual representations of Asian
American women in various media including industry and independent
film, pornography and feminist video. She edited the book The Feminist
Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure along with Constance
Penley, Mireille Miller-Young, and Tristan Taormino.
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