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  • Theorizing Colonial Cinema

    Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia

    by Nadine Chan, Aaron Gerow, Jane Marie Gaines, Zhen Zhang, Thomas A. C. Barker, Nikki J. Y. Lee, José B. Capino, Yiman Wang ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia.The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Visions of Japanese Modernity

    Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925

    by Aaron Gerow ...
    Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Kitano Takeshi

    by Aaron Gerow ...
    Series series World Directors
    Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of contemporary cinema, Japanese national identity, and globalism. ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Early Cinema in Asia

    by Charles Musser, Stephen Bottomore, Aaron Gerow, Wimal Dissanayake, Nadi Tofighian, Ritsu Yamamoto, Shahin Parhami, P. K. Nair, Hassan Abdul Muthalib, Daw-Ming Lee, Anchalee Chaiworaporn, Tilman Baumgartel, Wai-ming Law ...
    Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors to this volume document the struggle by pioneering figures to introduce the medium of film to the vast continent, overcoming geographic, technological, and cultural difficulties. As an early form of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Divided Lenses

    Screen Memories of War in East Asia

    by Michael Berry, Chiho Sawada, David Desser, Professor Eric Hayot, Professor Kyu Hyun Kim, Professor Hyangjin Lee, Professor Wenchi Lin, Professor Robert Brent Toplin, Professor Lily Wong0, Professor Yingjin Zhang1, Aaron Gerow2 ...
    Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Page of Madness

    Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan

    by Aaron Gerow ...
    Series Book 64 - Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
    Kinugasa Teinosuke’s 1926 film A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. It was an independently produced, experimental, avant-garde work from Japan whose brilliant use of cinematic technique was equal to if not superior to that of contemporary European cinema. Those studying Japan, focusing on the central involvement of such writers as ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies

    by Abé Markus Nornes, Aaron Gerow ...
    Series Book 65 - Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
    The Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema. Among the nations of the world, Japan has enjoyed an impressively lively print culture related to cinema. The first film books and periodicals appeared shortly after the birth of cinema, proliferating wildly in the 1910s with only ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Digital Horror Fiction Anthology

    25 Horror Fiction Short Stories, #1

    by Digital Fiction, Gregory L. Norris, Bruce Memblatt, Samuel Marzioli, David M. Hoenig, Aaron Gudmunson, James Dorr, Geoff Brown, Adrian Ludens, Jay Caselberg, Larry Hinkle, Adrian Cole, Tracie McBride, Geoff Gander, Sarah Hans, Jason A. Wyckoff, Jenner Michaud, Bruce Lockhart 2nd & Suzie Lockhart, C.M. Saunders, Rie Sheridan Rose, H.L. Fullerton, Bill Zaget, Michelle Mellon, Don Webb, Rue Karney, Renee Miller ...
    Series Book 1 - 25 Horror Fiction Short Stories
    DIGITAL HORROR FICTION ANTHOLOGY25 Horror Fiction Short Stories2:51, Behind the Caterpillar — Gregory L. NorrisA Dream for Sugar — Bruce MemblattA Pocket of Madness — Samuel MarzioliAces and Kings — David M. HoenigThe Animals — Aaron GudmunsonThe Borrowed Man — James DorrHis Own Personal Golgotha — Geoff BrownBuilding Condemned (Seeking Asylum) — Adrian LudensCompartmental — Jay CaselbergDemocrac. ... Read more

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    Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

    by Natsu Onoda Power ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as ... Read more

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  • Frames of Anime

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    Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the “language-medium” of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature

    Edited by Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song ...
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

    Edited by Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting ... Read more

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