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  • Celluloid Singapore

    Cinema, Performance and the National

    by Edna Lim ...
    Series series Traditions in World Cinema

    $92.99 USD

  • Asian Cinema and the Use of Space

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Lilian Chee, Edna Lim ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia.Concentrating on the performative ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

    Edited by Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of cultural, social, political, and economic transformation throughout the long ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

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  • Cinema and Landscape

    Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography

    Edited by Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner ...
    The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Ecologies of the Moving Image

    Cinema, Affect, Nature

    by Adrian J. Ivakhiv ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities
    Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe.This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: an account of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Queer Cinema in the World

    by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt ...
    Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Global/Local

    Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    by Jason McGrath, Chris Berry, Sheldon H. Lu ...
    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Read more

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  • The Asian Cinema Experience

    Styles, Spaces, Theory

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of ... Read more

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  • Ghostly Desires

    Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

    by Arnika Fuhrmann ...
    Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... 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

    $34.49 USD