Celine Parreñas Shimizu

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Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Born (1969-12-28) December 28, 1969 (age 54)
Philippines
Academic background
Alma materUC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford University
Academic work
InstitutionsUC Santa Barbara, San Francisco State University, UC Santa Cruz
Main interestsFilmmaker and film scholar
Notable worksStraitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies
Websitehttp://www.celineshimizu.com/

Celine Parreñas Shimizu (born December 28, 1969) is a filmmaker and film scholar. She is well known for her work on race, sexuality and representations. She is currently Dean of the Arts Division at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Background

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 earned a B.A. in Ethnic Studies in 1992.[1] She holds an M.F.A. in Film Directing and Production from the University of California at Los Angeles[2] and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature.[3] She is married to Daniel P Shimizu, with whom she has two sons. She is a grieving mother, having lost her youngest son, Lakas, in 2013. He succumbed to a common virus that attacked his heart within 24 hours.

Career

Shimizu is Dean of the Arts Division at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She was Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of the School of Cinema at 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 (Oxford University Press, 2020), Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies The book examines transnational films and their representations of intimacy across radical inequality.[4] 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[5] 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.[6]

Shimizu's numerous publications include interviews and articles in the top journals in her fields including Cinema Journal, Concentric, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Wide Angle, Theatre Journal, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Journal of Asian American Studies and Sexualities. She served as a columnist for the new media journal FLOWTV.org in 2009 and blogger on the They're All So Beautiful web series in 2013.

Her first feature film Birthright: Mothering Across Difference (2009) won the Best Feature Documentary at the Big Mini DV Festival. Her previous filmworks include Mahal Means Love and Expensive (1993), Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995), Super Flip (1997) and The Fact of Asian Women (2002/4), which won four festival awards. Her new film is The Celine Archive (2020), fiscally sponsored by Visual Communications in Los Angeles, is distributed by Women Make Movies and has won several festival awards.

She teaches popular culture, social theories of power and inequality, race and sexuality, feminist and film and performance theory as well as production.

For her scholarship and film work, Dr. Parreñas Shimizu has received many additional awards, fellowships, grants and honors including the Social Science Research Council Sexuality Research Fellowship, the Stanford Asian American Studies Graduate Academic Award, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Directing Fellowship at UCLA, the James Pendleton Foundation Directing Prize at UCLA and the Eisner Prize for Poetry—UC Berkeley's highest award in the creative arts. She has received external faculty fellowships from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and the Research Institute for Comparative Study in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

While at the University of California at Berkeley, she founded "smell this", the magazine by and about women of color distributed by Third Woman Press and edited "Tea Leaves," the Asian American arts and literary magazine as well as the undergraduate journal "portfolio." At UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, she was founding president of the student body.

As a faculty member, Shimizu's service and professional activity includes the leadership of the UCSB Senior Women's Council in 2007–09, and serving on the board of the University of California Committee on Academic Freedom, the UCSB Committee on Faculty Issues and Awards, UCSB Women's Center, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Music as well as serving as a jury member for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and the Social Justice Award for Documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. She convened the inaugural formation of the New Sexualities research focus group at UCSB. And she co-chaired the Asian Pacific Caucus for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in 2008–10.

On a national level, she has served as a reviewer for the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships and the National Endowment for the Humanities' America's Media Makers Program. For Duke University Press, New York University, Oxford University Press, Rutgers University, Temple University, University of Michigan Presses, and journals such as Signs, GLQ, and Frontiers she reviews articles and books.

She has served as Associate Editor for GLQ (Gay and Lesbian Quarterly), Women's International Forum (Elsevier), USA Editor for Asian Diasporas and Visual Cultures of the Americas (Brill) and is currently Associate Editor for GLQ (Duke University Press).

Professor Shimizu advises undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines as well as interdisciplinary areas of inquiry in the U.S. and beyond.

She has served on the Board of Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco and currently serves on the board of SFFILM.

Publications

Sole-authored books

Edited books

Journal articles

Digital humanities

Book chapters

Interviews

Book reviews

Films

Awards, prizes and distribution

Screenings

Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival, Chicago Asian American Film Festival, Women in the Directors' Chair International Film Festival in Chicago, Directors' Guild of America, Arkipelago-NYU Film Festival, New York International Film and Video Festival, Memories of Overdevelopment – U.S., Canada and Latin America, Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Los Angeles Filipino Film Festivals, Society for Cinema Studies, Kansas, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco Asian American International Festival, and Plug-In Gallery, Canada, Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival, Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles Filipino Film Festivals; Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Los Angeles Filipino Film Festivals, Society for Cinema Studies, Kansas, Long Island Festival in New York, San Francisco International Film Festival, Philippine Consulate – New York.

Film collections

Georgetown University, University of Michigan, University of Massachusetts at Boston; University of Vermont; Temple University, San Francisco State University; Asian CineVision; Visual Communications; Film Arts Foundation; NAATA; University of Hawaii; University of Wisconsin at Madison; Stanford University; Santa Clara University; Northwestern University; Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; and University of California Berkeley, Davis, Riverside, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara.

Other publications, radio and TV documentaries

References

  1. ^ "Home page". ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu. University of California at Berkeley.
  2. ^ "Home page". tft.ucla.edu. School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA.
  3. ^ "Home page". stanford.edu. Stanford University.
  4. ^ Shimizu, Celine Parreñas (2012). Straitjacket sexualities: unbinding Asian American manhoods in the movies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804773010.
  5. ^ Shimizu, Celine Parreñas (2007). The hypersexuality of race: performing Asian/American women on screen and scene. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822340331.
  6. ^ Shimizu, Celine Parreñas; Taormino, Tristan; Penley, Constance; Miller-Young, Mireille (2013). The feminist porn book: the politics of producing pleasure. New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 9781558618183.

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