Nguyen Tan Hoang is a video artist and academic whose work examines forms of desire in queer Asian male identities, Vietnamese diasporic cultural production, and Southeast Asian cinemas. His critical writings have appeared in Porn Studies, Vectors, and Resolutions 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces. His book A View from the Bottom is forthcoming from Duke University Press in August 2014. He is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA....
Fooled by Love: ViệtKiều Intimacy in Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema
Nguyễn Tân Hoàng will look at the portrayal of returning overseas Vietnamese in Charlie Nguyen’s Vietnamese box office hit, the romantic comedy Để Mai tính (Fool for Love) (2010). The two central Việtkiều characters–Mai, young Vietnamese German aspiring singer-songwriter and Hội, a gay Vietnamese American entrepreneur–are set apart from the locals by their non-normative gender and sexual expressions. She shamelessly asserts her career ambitions, while he puts his effeminate mannerisms to good use in his cosmetic company dealings. Both are representatives...
