Celine Parreñas Shimizu, film scholar and filmmaker, is Professor and Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She wrote The Proximity of Other Skins (2020), Straitjacket Sexualities (2012), and The Hypersexuality of Race (2007) and co-edited The Feminist Porn Book (2013) and The Unwatchability of Whiteness (2018). Her peer-reviewed articles appear in top journals in cinema, performance, ethnic, feminist, sexuality studies, and transnational popular culture in Asia and Asian America. Her writings have been translated to French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. She is Associate Editor of GLQ. Her recent film The Celine Archive(2020) has won several festival awards. She has served as a reviewer for the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, her M.F.A. in Film Directing and Production from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and her B.A. in Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkeley.

In this lecture, new images of race, gender and sexuality in Asian/ American Cinema tackle immigration, intimacy, and inequality, undoing social and psychic harm, in recognition of the power of film’s ability to generate new and needed narratives.