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Author: Smaill, Belinda
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004); SADNESS: A MONOLOGUE BY WILLIAM YANG (AT, Tony Ayres, 1999); CHINESE TAKEAWAY (AT, Mitzi Goldman, 2002)
Summary: Documentary is a genre not widely understood through its capacity to engage the emotions. This article works to acknowledge the affective labour performed by documentary and, more specifically, the way emotions give meaning to documentary subjects. The analysis explores the production of Asian Australian subjects as documentary authors in four prominent films produced over the previous decade: Chinese Takeaway (Mitzi Goldman, 2002), Sadness: A Monologue by William Yang (Tony Ayres, 1999), The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) and Letters to Ali (Clara Law. 2004). These texts allow for a fruitful examination of the way the emotions that shape the expression of these author-subjects, such as mourning and care, might impact on the documentary representation of cultural otherness. Asian Australian subjectivity coalesces in and around these texts in a manner that is founded on the activity of mourning. Included here are not only the bereavements of loved ones, but also the losses that are bound to the movements of modernity, such as the lost fullness which is the promise of diaspora, the failure or absence of universal citizenship and the lack of safety in life lived in advanced capitalism. This article explores not only the absences suggested in these films, but also how these absences present a site of ethical encounter for the viewer that both resists reducing and assimilating the Asian Australian author to a devalued ethnic other while also addressing a community of viewers through a relation of reciprocity based in caring attachments to the social realm. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1

Author: Brook, Scott
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003)
Summary: This article considers the production of the independent feature The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) in terms of a key factor reviewers and critics chose to play down: namely, that the director sought to capture public interest in Cabramatta (a suburb in Sydney's south west promoted as Australia's ‘most multicultural suburb’) in order to lift a Community Cultural Development (CCD) project out of the suburbs and deliver it to audiences of art-house cinema. While the film's representational strategies clearly reflect a tradition of independent Asian Australian cinema that critically negotiates the identity politics of state-sponsored multiculturalism, the film's mode of production had less to do with the avant-garde agendas reviewers compared it with, and more to do with an enduring governmental regime of pastoral pedagogy dedicated to the correction of ‘at risk’ subjects. Furthermore, the project strongly anticipated recent policy reforms to CCD initiated by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2004. Under the flexible rubric ‘Creative Communities’ these reforms seek to steer CCD workers away from cultural development as a narrow target of government intervention, and towards a more open and flexible range of policy goals and objectives. A close reading of the film's context of production reveals how such a policy shift might be expected to increase opportunities for local content to move between fields of cultural production, even as it multiplies dilemmas of formal accountability and aesthetic evaluation. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2

Call No: held no. 16. 1997-; -- IN STORAGE. OVERNIGHT RETRIEVAL
Source: US
Place: Miami, FL
Publisher: Vital Books
PubDate: [1993-]
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; UNDERGROUND FILMS; CULT FILMS; CULT FILMS. ASIA
Notes: Formerly Asian Trash Cinema
ISSN: 07447091528740
Missing Issues: 13-15
Indexed In: BFI

Call No: held no.5, 8-12
Source: US
Place: Miami, FL
PubDate: 1993
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; UNDERGROUND FILMS; CULT FILMS. ASIA
Notes: Last issue no. 12. Continued by Asian Cult Cinema.
Language: English
Missing Issues: 1-4, 6-7
Indexed In: FIAF

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS

Call No: 451-054(=9) BLA
CorpAuthor: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
Place: London
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 62 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Series: ICA documents ; 7
Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. UK; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. UK; BLACK FILMMAKERS. UK; BLACKS IN FILMS. UK; ASIANS IN FILMS. UK; BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE; SANKOVA FILM AND VIDEO COLLECTIVE; CHANNEL FOUR; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986); MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985); PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE, THE (UK, Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien, 1986)
Notes: Papers originally presented at a day conference, conducted at ICA, Feb. 1988; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0905263960
LON: 6631335

Call No: 71(5) CON
Source: UK
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Berg
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: vi, 250 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Asian Cinema
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; SINGAPORE; VIETNAM; THAILAND; PHILIPPINES; INDIA; SRI LANKA; BANGALADESH; KOREA; CHINA; TAIWAN; HONG KONG; 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: 1845202376
ISSN: 17448719
Contents: -- 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.

Call No: 737(5-012) DIV
Source: US
Place: Honolulu
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: WAR AND THE CINEMA; WAR FILMS; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR II FILMS; WORLD WAR II FILMS. JAPAN; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. CHINA; KOREAN WAR FILMS; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR FILMS; TAIWAN; MANGA; VIDEO GAMES; COMPUTER GAMES; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; ASIANS IN FILMS; [TWO THOUSAND AND NINE] 2009: LOST MEMORIES [2009 IOSEUTEU MAEMORIJEU] (KO, Si-myung Lee, 2002); BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS [NU JIZHONGYING] (HK, Kuei Chih-Hung, 1973); CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007); FRIENDS (JP/KO, 2002); SCARLET ROSE: THE GODDESSES OF JINLING [XUESE MEIGUI: JINLING NUSHEN] [TV](CC, Yu Liqing, 2007)
Summary: Exploring how the years of 1931-1953 have been recreated and negotiated in cinema. This period saw conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War and events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bomibings of Hiroshina and Nagasaki. The films relating to the experiences of the countries China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and other Far East countries, as well as the United States of America are examined. - partially taken from cover
Notes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305), filmography, television and video game lists (pages 281-290) and index
ISBN: 9780824851514
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Divided Lenses / Michael Berry -- Part I : screen histories of war in East Asia -- War, history, and remembrance in Chinese cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Of female spies and national heroes : a brief history of anti-Japanese films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s / Wenchi Lin -- The "division blockbuster" in South Korea: the evolution of cinematic representations of war and division / Hyangjin Lee -- Under the flag of the rising sun: imagining and reimagining the Pacific war in the Japanese cinema / David Desser -- Japanese manga and anime on the Asia-Pacific war experience / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Continuity and change in Hollywood's representations of American-Asian relations in war and peace / Robert Brent Toplin -- Part II : reading war trauma -- Oscillating histories : representations of comfort women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women / Lily Wong -- Shooting the enemy : photographic attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose / Michael Berry -- War and nationalism in recent Japanese cinema : Yamato, trauma, and forgetting the postwar / Aaron Gerow -- The promise and limits of "pop culture diplomacy" in East Asia : contexts-texts-reception / Chiho Sawada -- History and its alternatives : war games as social form / Eric Hayot

Call No: 62(082) GEN
Author: Codell, Julie F.
Source: US
Place: Malden, Massachusetts
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; BOLLYWOOD; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; FILM NOIR; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; WORLD CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; RACE AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IRAN; MELODRAMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; KAIGE, CHEN; NAIR, MIRA; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999); HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993); INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995); SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998); ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) SEE TODO SOBRE MI MADRE; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999); TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."
ISBN: 1405132337
Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements

Author: Jones, Dave
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ART AND THE CINEMA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; INDONESIA; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; VIETNAM; RAY, SATYAJIT; RUBBO, MICHAEL
Summary: Interview with filmmaker Michael Rubbo on the development of his career and his thoughts on art and the cinema
Notes: Article by Dave Jones on his personal view of Michael Rubbo's films p. 8-9

Call No: 734.1 NAR
Author: Naremore, James
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: FILM NOIR; BLACKLISTING. USA; B-MOVIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; HERO IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FILMS IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DETECTIVE FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WASHINGTON, DENZEL; ALDRICH, ROBERT; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; DUNAWAY, FAYE; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS; FRANKLIN, CARL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; GREENE, GRAHAM; HAMMETT, DASHIELL; JACKSON, SAMUEL L.; LADD, ALAN; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexes
ISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 13441055

Call No: 408.3(5/94) SHA
Author: Shaw, Sylvie
Source: AT
Place: Carlton, Vic.
Publisher: Asialink
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: vii, 29 p. ; 26 cm
Subject: EXPORT OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ASIAN COUNTRIES
Summary: The book is in two sections. The first section is an issues paper for the Filmliks Conference which looks at various issues involving Australian films and tv shows and their depiction of Asia and the importance of Australian productions being made and shown in Asia. The second section of the book has a report of the discussions at the Filmlinks Conference and includes responses to the conference by Ron Hurrell, Frank Morgan, and Georgia Wallace-Crabbe

Author: Yue, Audrey
PhysDes: Article
Subject: PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOME SONG STORIES, THE (AT, Tony Ayres, 2007)
Summary: This paper examines Tony Ayres' recent film, The Home Song Stories (2007) using the framework of queer Asian Australian migration. First, queer migration is critically considered through the minor transnationalism of its co-production. Evaluating the marketing of the film in Singapore and Australia, this article shows how Chinese ethnicity is deployed as exclusive and inclusive to enable different tactics of queer mobility and how these tactics are incorporated by different film policies to fulfil competing national aims. Second, this article considers the queer mobility of diasporic intimacy. Diasporic intimacy disrupts the regulation of queer migration and shows how the private domains of memory, family and sexuality are reconstituted in the transnational Chinese diaspora. The framework of queer Asian Australian migration describes the non-normative migration of Asians to Australia, the disjunctive flows of mobility that constitute the Asian diaspora in Australia, as well as the regulation of non-normative Asian Australian migration in national symbolic and institutional economies. The framework of queer Asian Australian migration, this article argues, provides a theoretical platform to critically consider the transnationality of Asian Australian cinema. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2

Call No: 451-054(94) STR
Author: Stratton, John
Source: AT
Place: Annandale, NSW
Publisher: Pluto Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 224 pages ; 22 cm
Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "Race Daze argues that the post-Whitlam Australian national identity remians hung up on our Anglo-centric past and takes the reader on an entertaining cruise through our films to prove his point. From 'Barry McKenzie' to 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,' Race Daze shows that Australian films and television have lagged far behind our polyglot cultural reality, receycling a white Australia that no longer exists."--BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 1864030534

Call No: 451-054(=95)(73) LOC
Author: Locke, Brian
Edition: First Plagrave Macmillan paperback edition
Source: US
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; CRASH (US, Paul Haggis, 2004); FLASH GORDON (US/UK, Mike Hodges, 1980); LAST SAMURAI, THE (US, Edward Zwick, 2003); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); LETHAL WEAPON 4 (US, Richard Donner, 1998); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); RISING SUN (US, Philip Kaufman, 1993)
Summary: "Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood's representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alongside an analysis of multiple genres of film, Brian Locke argues that this triangulated rendering of race ameliorates the longstanding historical contradiction between US democratic ideals and white America's persistent domination over blacks." -book blurb.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and indexes
ISBN: 9781137029348
Contents: List of figures -- acknowledgements -- Introduction - Three's a crowd: Crash (2005) -- Strange fruit: Bataan (1943) -- White and black to the brink: China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960) -- The blaxploitation buddy film -- The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987-1998), Rising Sun (1993) -- The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers": Blade Runner (1982, 1992 and 2007) -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto": The Matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian -- Epilogue - Pearl Harbor eclipsed? The Last Samurai (2003) -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Film and television index -- General index

Author: Fresno-Calleja, Paloma
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; WOMEN IN FILMS; LIANG, ROSEANNE; TAKE 3 (NZ, Roseanne Liang, 2008)
Summary: This article analyses Roseanne Liang's short film Take 3 (2008), the story of three New Zealand actresses of Chinese descent who attend a number of auditions in which they are expected to perform typical racialized and sexualized roles that continue to prevail in Western imagination and popular media. Liang's work urges the audience to question the prevalence of these popular representations, and rejects ethnic and cultural tokenism, in the context of what I call New Zealand's ‘underdeveloped multiculturalism’, one that, despite the country's evident cultural and demographic diversity, still has to work its way into the fabric of New Zealand society. I look at Liang's work as an example of the artistic and critical interventions into the multicultural debate carried out by artists of diverse Asian backgrounds in recent years. -- Abstract

Author: Grace, Helen
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LITTLE FISH (AT, Rowan Woods, 2005); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007)
Summary: :In considering three films that I link in this speculation on ‘Asian Australian cinema’, I want to argue that if, before The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003), Asian Australian stories tended to be marginal and community based, the success of Khoa Do's film (and life) has opened out migrant experience to broader empathy so that now it can be drawn upon to speak for general humanity beyond ‘Australianness’. If The Finished People and Little Fish (Rowan Wood, 2005) belong to a period of film industry decline in Australia, corresponding with a parallel social/cultural depression in Australia — the worst of the Howard years — Lucky Miles (Michael James Rowland, 2007) reworks the trauma of those years, as a new Back of Beyond (John Heyer, 1954) — globalized rather than nationalized, its references less to the subsistence aesthetics and economy of postwar nation-building and more to a globalized commodities export market and the genres of global film-making styles. So we no longer need to have quintessential ‘Australian’ battlers to demonstrate resilience; asylum seekers are now better at doing this and much more appealing than Aussie battlers (like the Heart family in Little Fish, notwithstanding the attempt to rescue them by importing global/local stars to perform their abjection) — all the more so if one of the refugees has come in search of his Australian father And if the landscape of the original Back of Beyond provided a counterpoint to the economic centrality of suburban Australia as site of commodity consumption in the 1950s, the Pilbara landscape setting of Lucky Miles is above all a key site of commodity production and export in the globalized economy which also draws the characters to export themselves into the flow of this market. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2

Call No: 408.1(5/94) KHO
Author: Khoo, Olivia; Smaill, Belinda; Yue, Audrey
Source: UK/US
Place: Lanham
Publisher: Lexington Books
PubDate: c2013
PhysDes: vii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "This book provides the first in-depth study of a history of Asian Australian cinema. Structured through case studies that progress chronologically, the book examines Australian cinema's transnationality through its under-examined cinematic encounters with Asia. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9780739173244
Contents: -- Reframing Australian cinema: transnationalism, ethics, and Asian Australian cinema -- Asian stereotypes in 1920s -- Australian cinema: the cook, the thief, the wife and lover -- Colombo plan documentary: Australia and Asia in the postwar era -- The transnationalisation of the Australian western: Japanese-Australian productions in the late 1960's -- Romance, Entrepreneurialism, and the intercultural couple -- The global back of beyond: ethics and the Asian Australian road movie -- Landscape cinema: asianness and indigeneity -- new ethics in the Asian Australian short film -- The community cultural development of action cinema -- Co-productions and new queer paradigms for mobilities and migration -- bibliography -- filmography -- index --
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Call No: 71(94) TWI
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Damned Publishing
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 558 p.
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; WARD, VINCENT; HALL, KEN G.; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997); BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (AT, George Miller, 1998); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); YATGO HO YAN (HK, Samo Hung, 1997); RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998); VACANT POSSESSION (AT, Margot Nash, 1995)
ISBN: 1876310006
LON: 20154200
ID2: 29

Call No: 626-054 VIS
Author: Berstein, Matthew; Studlar, Gaylyn
Source: US
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c1997
PhysDes: ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; ASIANS IN FILMS; INDOCHINE (FR, Regis Wargnier, 1992); ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992); PEPE LE MOKO (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1937); CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1945)
Summary: "Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically charged way in which Western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed include The Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and severeal films of France's 'cinema colonial'."-BOOK BLURB
Notes: includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and index
ISBN: 0813522951
Contents: Acknowledgements / Matthew Bernstein -- Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania / Antonia Lant --"Out-Salomeing Salome": Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism / Gaylyn Studlar -- The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole / Andrienne L. McLean -- The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine / Marina Heung -- A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Alladin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East / Alan Nadel -- The "Cinema colonial" of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice / Charles O'Brien -- Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic / Dudley Andrew -- In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko / Janice Morgan -- Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra / Mary Homer. Reading the Letter in a Postcolonial World / Phebe Shih Chao -- Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography