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  • Aleksei Balabanov: 'Brother'

    by Ira Osterberg, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.Ira Österberg's KinoSputnik on Aleksei Balabanov's cult film Brother (1997) examines the production history, context and reception of the film, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"One of this book's strengths is how ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • East Asian Cinema

    by David Carter ...
    Film directors from East Asia frequently win top prizes at international film festivals, but few books have been published about them. The films of these countries reflect periods of great political turmoil, rapid modernization in the 20th century, and the conflicts between modern lifestyles and traditional values. Covering films and filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and North and ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Typewriter

    A History

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Contemporary Romanian Cinema

    The History of an Unexpected Miracle

    by Dominique Nasta ...
    Over the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), and 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006). However, the hundred or so years of Romanian cinema leading to these accomplishments have been largely overlooked. This book is the first to provide in-depth analyses ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • John Woo's A Better Tomorrow

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. ... Read more

    $17.99 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

    $28.79 USD

  • From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee

    Lust/Caution

    Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen, Whitney Crothers Dilley ...
    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China’s most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought unexpectedly harsh criticism from China, where Ang Lee was labelled a traitor in scathing internet critiques, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Eileen Chang

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Eileen Chang (19201995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements meant that in mainland China, she was neglected until very recently. Outside the mainland, her life and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Taiwan Film Directors

    A Treasure Island

    by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD