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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

  • At Translation's Edge

    Translated by Lorena Terando ...
    by Lydia H Liu, John Cayley, Russell Scott Valentino, Naoki Sakai, Deborah Folaron, Margaret A Noodin, Yiman Wang0, Martha Pulido1, Olga Behar2, Elizabeth R Drame3, Suzanne Jill Levine4 ...
    Series series Media Matters
    Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Vamping the Stage

    Female Voices of Asian Modernities

    by Andrew N. Weintraub, Bart Barendregt, Frederick Lau, Dr. Yifen T. Beus, Professor Farzaneh Hemmasi, Professor Heesun Kim, Dr. Soojin Kim, Dr. Jennifer Milioto Matsue, Professor Joshua D. Pilzer0, Dr. Russell P. Skelchy1, Professor Sooi Beng Tan2, Ricardo D. Trimillos3, Yiman Wang4, Professor Amanda Weidman5, Christine R. Yano6 ...
    Series series Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
    The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in popular music of Asia.Women surfaced as popular icons in different guises in different Asian countries ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Chinese Animation

    Multiplicities in Motion

    Edited by Daisy Yan Du, John A. Crespi, Yiman Wang ...
    Series Book 21 - Harvard Contemporary China Series
    Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) blockbusters to edgy independent films, and from stop-motion to virtual reality.Its fifteen chapters, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • 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

  • Hong Kong Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational “texts” in film, fiction, architecture and other forms of visual culture. The city has been a cultural fault-line for centuries—a translation space where Chinese-ness is interpreted for “Westerners” and Western-ness is translated for Chinese. Though constantly refreshed by its Chinese roots and global influences, this hub of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • China on Screen

    Cinema and Nation

    by Christopher Berry, , Ph.D., Mary Ann Farquhar, , Ph.D. ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s modern urban-industrial society. This important and popular genre, Man-Fung Yip argues, articulates the experiential ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sinascape

    Contemporary Chinese Cinema

    by Gary G. Xu ...
    Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is one of the most comprehensive studies of transnational Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Gary Xu combines a close reading of contemporary movies from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with an intimate look into the transnational Chinese film industry, based on his working relationship with filmmakers. He coins the word 'sinascape' to reflect ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Cinema

    Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

    by Felicia Chan ...
    Series series World Cinema
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Manchester.Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Hong Kong Screenscapes

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Global connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. Energized by transnational images and human flows from China and Asia, Hong Kong’s commercial filmmakers and independent pioneers have actively challenged established genres and narrative conventions to create a cultural space independent of Hollywood. The circulation of Hong Kong films through art house and film festival ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Chinese Ecocinema

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    This anthology is the first book-length study of China’s ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing “ecocinema” as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today’s world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and humanity; the dialect of socialist modernization amid capitalist globalization; shifting configurations of space, locale, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD