Eve Oishi

Claremont Graduate University · Department of Cultural Studies

This article is a cross-generational exchange of ideas and experiences that explores the intersections of film curating and activism. Its authors set forth accounts of their own experiences as scholars who have worked as film festival curators “on the side” from the 1990s to the present within the context of the new yet rapidly growing field of fil...

This essay performs a critical comparison of two documentary films about queer and trans people of color, Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning (1991) and Wu Tsang's Wildness (2012) and examines how the two films negotiate of the politics of representing reality and “realness.” The comparison illuminates two entwined problematics: the ways in which...

It is difficult to compare Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey’s memoir with other Japanese American World War II incarceration memoirs because there have been so few. Of the over 110,000 Japanese Americans who personally experienced wartime imprisonment, only a handful have published autobiographical accounts. These include Noboru Shirai’s Tule Lake: An Issei...

Camera Obscura 18.2 (2003) 118-129 In Fountain Chang poured water onto the surface of a round mirror lying flat on the floor and, kneeling over it, strenuously slurped the water off. This action, which was repeated for thirty to forty-five minutes at a time, was captured by a stationary video camera, and the image was projected both on a monitor ou...