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The Asian cinema experience : styles, spaces, theory Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call No: 756(5) TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2013PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30Subject: INDIAN CINEMA ; CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; TAIWAN ; THAILAND ; SINGAPORE ; MALAYSIA ; IRAN ; BOLLYWOOD ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD CINEMA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; ANIMATION ; HORROR FILM ; GHOST FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA Summary: "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 Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component--this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781138815780Contents: pt. I Styles -- 1.Kurosawa and classical style in Asian Cinema -- 2.Satyajit Ray and the Indian sensitivity of affect -- 3.The historical blockbuster style -- 4.The abstract transnational style of anime -- 5.Asian horror and the ghost-story style -- 6.The `Bollywood' style -- pt. II Spaces -- 7.Space in Asian melodrama -- 8.Iranian cinema and inward space -- 9.Domestic space and the family in South Korean cinema -- 10.Erotic space in Asian films -- pt. III Theory -- 11.The world and Asian Cinema -- 12.Asian Cinema and other cinemas.
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The Asian film industry / John A. Lent Bromley: Christopher Helm, 1990.
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Colonialism and nationalism in Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Colonialism and nationalism in Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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A companion to contemporary documentary film / edited by Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow Malden, MA: John Wiley and Sons, 2015.
Call No: 761 COMSource: USPlace: Malden, MAPublisher: John Wiley and SonsPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xvi, 674 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; SEA IN FILMS ; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; YUGOSLAVIA ; SEX IN FILMS ; WOMEN MAKE MOVIES [organisation] ; DISEASES IN FILMS ; SCIENCE AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE IN FILMS ; AIDS ON TV. SOUTH AFRICA ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; WAR FILMS ; BAL, MIEKE ; ZILNIK, ZELIMIR ; TRAN VAN THUY ; FAROCKI, HARUN ; CRUDE AWAKENING: THE OIL CRASH A (SZ, Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack, 2006) ; CRUDE (US, Joe Berlinger, 2009) ; H [TWO] 2 OIL (CN, Shannon Walsh, 2009) ; PLANET, THE (SW/NO/DK, Michael Stenberg / John Soderberg / Linus Torell, 2006) ; INTO ETERNITY: A FILM FOR THE FUTURE (DK/FI/SW/IT, Michael Madsen, 2010) ; OTOLITH I [OTOLITH 1] (UK, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, 2003) ; OTOLITH II [OTOLITH 2] (UK, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, 2007) ; OTOLITH III [OTOLITH 3] (UK, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, 2009) ; INCONVENIENT TRUTH, AN (US, Davis Guggenheim, 2006) ; SOMEPLACE WITH A MOUNTAIN (US/FM, Steve Goodall, 2010) ; CONTAINED MOBILITY (SZ, Ursula Biemann, 2004) ; SAHARA CHRONICLE (SZ, Ursula Biemann, 2006-2009) ; GHOSTS (UK, Nick Broomfield, 2006) ; LOVE ON DELIVERY [FRA THAILAND TIL THY] (DK, Janus Metz Pedersen, 2007) ; TICKET TO PARADISE [FRA THY TIL THAILAND] (DK, Janus Metz Pedersen, 2008) ; WHEN MOTHER COMES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (II/GR, Nilita Vachani, 1996) ; H [TWO] 2 WORKER (US, Stephanie Black, 1990) ; LIFE AND DEBT (US, Stephanie Black, 2001) ; MAQUILAPOLIS: CITY OF FACTORIES (MX/US, Sergio de la Torre and Vicky Funari, 2006) ; DECENT FACTORY, A (FR/FI/UK/AT/DK, Thomas Balmes, 2004) ; WHY CYBRACEROS? (US,Alex Rivera, 1997) ; WHY BRACEROS? (US, 1959) ; VALLEY CENTRO, EL (US, James Benning, 1999) ; LOS (US, James Benning, 2001) ; DOUBLE TIDE (US/AU, Sharon Lockhart, 2009) ; GLEANERS AND I, THE [GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE, LES] (FR, Agnes Varda, 2000) ; GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE, LES: DEUX ANS APRES (FR, Agnes Varda, 2002) ; WORKINGMAN'S DEATH (AU/GG, Michael Glawogger, 2005) ; OLD SCHOOL OF CAPITALISM, THE [STARA SKOLA KAPITALIZMA] (SB, Zelimir Zilnik, 2009) ; LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE! (US, Julia Query & Vicky Funari, 2000) ; TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES (II, Shohini Ghosh, 2002) ; SCARLET ROAD (AT, Catherine Scott, 2011) ; PLACE OF RAGE, A [WARRIOR MARKS] (UK, Pratibha Parmar, 1991) ; DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, THE (UK, Kim Longinotto, 2002) ; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009) ; SENORITA EXTRAVIADA [MISSING YOUNG WOMAN] (MX, Lourdes Portillo, 2001) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) ; WILDNESS (US, Wu Tsang, 2012) ; INNER LIFE OF THE CELL (US, XVIVO, 2006) ; BEAT IT! [TV] (SA, 2001) ; MY REINCARNATION (SZ/NE/IT/GG/FI/VE/US/TZ/SI/MY/RM/CC/MX/RU/IS/AU, Jennifer Fox, 2011) ; GEVALD (IS, Netalie Braun, 2009) ; BLACK BUS (IS, Anat Zuria, 2010) ; REBELLIOUS SON, THE (IS, Shosi Greenfield, 2009) ; STORY OF KINDNESS [CHUYEN TU TE] (V, Tran Van Thy, 1987) ; NICHT LOSCHBARES FEUER [INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE] (GR, Harun Farocki, 1969) ; IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR [BILDER DER WELT UND INSCHRIFT DES KRIEGES] (GW, Harun Farocki, 1988) ; SERIOUS GAMES [series] (GG, Harun Farocki, 2009) ; I ONLY WISH I COULD WEEP (LE, Wallid Raad, 2002) ; MIRACULOUS BEGINNINGS (LE, Walid Raad) ; SPIRITUAL VOICES: FROM THE DIARIES OF WAR [DUKHOVNYE GOLOSA, IZ DNEVNIKOV VOYNY. POVESTVOVANIE V PYATI CHASTYAKH] [TV] (RU, Aleksandr Sokurov, 1995) ; DAY OF THE SPARROW [DER TAG DES SPATZEN] (GG, Philip Scheffner, 2010) ; [FORTY-EIGHT] 48 (PO, Susana de Sousa Dias, 2010) ; ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE (UK/CB, Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin, 2009) ; DUCH: MASTER OF THE FORGES OF HELL (CB, Rithy Panh, 2011) ; SKINNY ALEJANDRA: LIVES AND DEATHS OF A CHILEAN WOMAN [LA FLACA ALEJANDRA: VIDAS Y MUERTES DE UNA CHILENA] (CL, Carmen Castillo, 1994) ; OPERATION ATROPOS (CL, Coco Fusco, 2005) ; ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, THE (UK, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, 2006) ; TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (US, Alex Gibney, 2007) ; BRIDGE, THE (UK/US, Eric Steel, 2006) Summary: This book presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and effect change. This book presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating to all aspects of contemporary documentary films It includes nearly 30 original essays by top documentary film scholars and makers, with each thematic grouping of essays sub-edited by major figures in the field. This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary documentary filmmakers and the study of documentary film the planet, migration, work, sex, virus, religion, war, torture, and surveillance. This book considers a wide diversity of documentary films that fall outside typical canons, including international and avant-garde documentaries presented in a variety of media.ISBN: 9780470671641Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. I Planet / Juan Francisco Salazar -- 1.Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries / Imre Szeman -- 2.Anticipatory Modes of Futuring Planetary Change in Documentary Film / Juan Francisco Salazar -- 3.Projecting Sea Level Rise: Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies / Janet Walker -- pt. II Migration / Aniko Imre -- Introduction / Aniko Imre -- 4.Videogeographies / Ursula Biemann -- 5.Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking and the Global Marketplace / Leshu Torchin -- 6.Documenting What? Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics / Mieke Bal -- pt. III Work / Silke Panse -- Introduction / Silke Panse -- 7.The Work of the Documentary Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics / Silke Panse -- 8.Old School Capitalism in Post-Socialism: The Struggles of Zelimir Zilnik's Workers / Ewa Mazierska -- 9.Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of Documentary Film / Anna E. Ward -- pt. IV Sex / Laura Hyun Yi Kang -- Contents note continued: Introduction / Laura Hyun Yi Kang -- 10.Documentary Practice and Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC / Patricia White -- 11.Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo's Senorita Extraviada (2001) / Rosa-Linda Fregoso -- 12.Reading Realness: Paris Is Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice / Eve Oishi -- pt. V Virus / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Introduction / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- 13.Animating Informatics: Scientific Discovery Through Documentary Film / Kirsten Ostherr -- 14.HIV on Documentary Television in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Rebecca Hodes -- 15.Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses, and Quilts / Alexandra Juhasz -- pt. VI Religion / Alisa Lebow -- Introduction / Alisa Lebow -- 16.Rising in the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary Documentary Subject / Angelica Fenner -- Contents note continued: 17.The New Religious Wave in Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism During the Second Intifada / Raya Morag -- 18.Tran Van Thuy's Story of Kindness: Spirituality and Political Discourse / Dean Wilson -- pt. VII War / Jeffrey Skoller -- Introduction / Jeffrey Skoller -- 19.Second Thoughts on "The Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition" / Jane M. Gaines -- 20.One, Two, Three Montages ... Harun Farocki's War Documentaries / Nora M. Alter -- 21.The Unwar Film / Alisa Lebow -- pt. VIII Torture / Alisa Lebow -- Introduction / Alisa Lebow -- 22.(In)visible Evidence: The Representability of Torture / Susana de Sousa Dias -- 23.Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide / Deirdre Boyle -- 24.The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation Atropos / Macarena Gomez-Barris -- 25.Toward the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee Bodies in Documentary Film / Anjali Nath --
Contents note continued: pt. IX Surveillance / Elizabeth Cowie -- Introduction / Elizabeth Cowie -- 26.Architectures of Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital Documentaries / Sharon Lin Tay -- 27.The World Viewed: Documentary Observing and the Culture of Surveillance / Elizabeth Cowie -- 28.Surveillance in the Service of Narrative / Brian Winston -- 29.Face Blind: Documentary Media and Subversion of Surveillance / Patrik Sjoberg.
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Contemporary Asian cinema : popular culture in a global frame / edited by Anne Teresa Ciecko Oxford: Berg, 2006.
Call No: 71(5) CONSource: UKPlace: OxfordPublisher: BergPubDate: 2006PhysDes: vi, 250 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Asian CinemaSubject: ASIAN COUNTRIES ; INDONESIA ; MALAYSIA ; SINGAPORE ; VIETNAM ; THAILAND ; PHILIPPINES ; INDIA ; SRI LANKA ; BANGALADESH ; KOREA ; CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; TAIWAN ; JAPAN Summary: This book presents the most authoritative assessment of contemporary Asian cinema available. Each chapter describes the cultural aspects of popular film production, analyzing key films in the context of the national, the regional and the global. Topics covered include: film theory and Asian cinema, popular film genres, major industry figures, the "art film", connections between the state and commercial interests, cultural policies, representations of national identity, trends in international co-production, and more.ISBN: 1845202376ISSN: 17448719Contents: -- Introduction to popular Asian cinema, with acknowledgements / Anne T. Ciecko; -- 1 Theorizing Asian cinema(s) / Anne T. Ciecko -- 2 Philippines : cinema and its hybridity / Jose B. Capino -- 3 Vietnam : chronicles of old and new / Panivong Norindr -- 4 Thailand : revival in an age of globalization / Anchalee Chaiworaporn and Adam Knee -- 5 Singapore : developments, challenges, and projections / Jan Uhde and Yvonne Ng Uhde -- 6 Malaysia : melodramatic drive, rural discord, urban heartaches / William van der Heide -- 7 Indonesia : screening a nation in the post-new order / Krishna Sen -- 8 Sri Lanka : art, commerce, and cultural modernity / Wimal Dissanayake -- 9 Bangladesh : native resistance and nationalist discourse / Zakir Hossain Raju -- 10 India : Bollywood's global coming of age / Jyotika Virdi and Corey K. Creekmur -- 11 Mainland China : public square to shopping mall and the new entertainment film / Augusta Lee Palmer -- 12 Taiwan : popular cinema's disappearing act / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- 13 Hong Kong : cinematic cycles of grief and glory / Anne T. Ciecko -- 14 South Korea : film on the global stage / Hyangjin Lee -- 15 Japan : cause for (cautious) optimism / Darrell William Davis.
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Dreaming of a new start in Sydney Morning Herald (22/03/2016) p.16
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; WEERASETHAKUL, APICHATPONGAuthor: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: THAILAND ; WEERASETHAKUL, APICHATPONG Summary: Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul about his filmmaking philosophies, his career, and why he plans to make films outside of his native Thailand
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Film in South East Asia : views from the region : - essays on film in 10 South East Asia-Pacific Countries / edited by David Hanan Hanoi: South East Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association, 2001.
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Op Thailand 'breaches rules' in Daily Telegraph [Sydney Confidential] (19/05/2017) p.30
Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; OPERATION THAILAND [TV](AT, 2017)Author: Rawsthorne, Sally PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: OPERATION THAILAND [TV](AT, 2017) Summary: A claim has been made by the Australian College of Dermatology that the reality TV show OPERATION THAILAND (which looks at Australians travelling to Thailand to receive plastic surgery) is breaching medical ethics rules
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The Tartan guide to Asia extreme : An introduction to the astonishing world of cinema from the far east / Mark Pilkington / Jule Hartung (ed.) 2004.
Call No: 720(5) TARAuthor: Mark Pilkington PubDate: 2004PhysDes: 17 cm ; 58 pSubject: HORROR FILMS. HONG KONG ; HORROR FILMS ; CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; KOREA ; JAPAN ; TAIWAN ; GENRES ; THAILAND Summary: With titles such as Hard Boiled, Kwaidan and Onibaba, Tartan delivered the best and most provocative cinema from the East. But when Ring and Audition were unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences nationwide it became apparent that the appetite for such outrageous fare was massive, and it made sense to let people know where to find it. Thus, Asia Extreme was born. Films such as Battle Royale and Infernal Affairs continue to satisfy the ever increasing hunger for astounding cinematic style and outrageous shock moments, while a swathe of even newer titles – like Oldboy and Koma – wait in the wings for their chance to leave audiences breathless. Now, it seems inconceivable that, once upon a time, Asia Extreme didn’t exist at all. Heres the story of the origin and development of the most exciting and unique of all contemporary genres. [Taken from back cover].
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Thai Film Festival : a perspective through the 1970s and 1980s Tokyo: Masaru Inoue, 1990.
Call No: 71(593) THACorpAuthor: Kokusai Ksorysu Kikin. Asean Bunka SentsaPlace: TokyoPublisher: Masaru InouePubDate: 1990PhysDes: 59 p. : ill., ports., ; 30 cmSeries: Introducing Southeast Asian cinema to Japan series ; no. 1Subject: THAILAND Notes: Cover title; English and Japanese; "Sponsored and organized by the Japanese Foundation ASEAN Culture Centre with the assistance of PIA Co., LTD."LON: 9821263
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Vampires and zombies : transcultural migrations and transnational interpretations / Edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Call No: 735.2 FISAuthor: Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea ; Mueller, Monika Edition: 2016Place: JacksonPublisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: 2016PhysDes: vi, 256 : illus. ; 24 cmSubject: VAMPIRE FILMS ; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV ; MONSTERS IN FILMS ; THAILAND ; MEXICO ; WORLD WAR Z (US/MT, Marc Forster, 2013) ; VAMPYR: THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF ALLEN GRAY [VAMPYR: DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY] (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) ; VAMPIRO, EL (MX, Paul Nagle, 1959) Notes: The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone significant transformations in global culture, proliferating as deviant representatives of the zeitgeist.
As this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. Of all monsters, vampires and zombies seem to be the most trendy--the most regularly incarnate of the undead and the monsters most frequently represented in the media and pop culture. Moreover, both figures have experienced radical reinterpretations. If in the past vampires were evil, blood-sucking exploiters and zombies were brainless victims, they now have metamorphosed into kinder and gentler blood-sucking vampires and crueler, more relentless, flesh-eating zombies. Although the portrayals of both vampires and zombies can be traced back to specific regions and predate mass media, the introduction of mass distribution through film and game technologies has significantly modified their depiction over time and in new environments. Among other topics, contributors discuss zombies in Thai films, vampire novels of Mexico, and undead avatars in horror videogames. This volume--with scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds--explores the transformations that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel globally and through various media and cultures.
Contributions by Katarzyna Ancuta, Daniella Borgia, Timothy R. Fox, Richard J. Hand, Ewan Kirkland, Sabine Metzger, Timothy M. Robinson, Carmen Serrano, Rasmus R. Simonsen, and Johannes Weber -- publisher's blurb
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