“With<i> Lost in Translation</i>, her powerful analysis of Asia as an ‘enigmatic signifier’ for those who inhabit ‘the West,’ Homay King stages a compelling encounter between psychoanalytic theory, especially as reformulated in the texts of Jean Laplanche, and the politics of racial, national, and ethnic representation. Identifying East and West alike as sites of internal alterity, this smart, provocative, and persuasive book resists the familiar reductiveness of multiculturalist piety in order to insist on the ongoing work of finding ourselves, no less than our others, as always already in translation.”—<b>Lee Edelman</b>, author of <i>No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive</i>

“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.”

- Belinda Smaill, Screening the Past

“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.”

- Ana Salzberg, Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

“In <i>Lost in Translation </i>by Homay King, we can review notions of image, signification, message, and translation, primarily in American films, where mise-en-scène depicts East Asian Orientalist tropes. . . . What I especially appreciate in this undertaking is King’s elegant prose style, as well as aesthetic distance resulting from the close readings of individual film texts.”

- Diane Borden, fort da