AMERICAN BLOCKBUSTER: MOVIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND WONDER By Charles R. Acland. Duke University Press, 2020. 400 pp. $29.95 paper.

Abstract

class, and racial contexts of sex and other intimacies they illuminate “black holes in our imagination” (29). These films reveal our own limited perspectives and help us to become aware of our inability to envision affective relations across difference and of our necessity to expand our imagination and literacies. Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s undeniable contribution to global cinemas is a fantastic read for film and cultural studies scholars and graduate students, as well as researchers in areas such as postcolonial, sexuality, and queer studies.