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Another cinema for another society / Gaston Roberge Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1985.
Call No: 408.1(540) ROBAuthor: Roberge, Gaston Source: IIPlace: CalcuttaPublisher: Seagull BooksPubDate: 1985PhysDes: 151p. : ill. ; 22cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; RAY, SATYAJIT ; WELLES, ORSON ; BRON, PETER ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; GANDHI (UK/II, Richard Attenborough, 1982) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927) Summary: "Father Gaston Roberge, Director of Chitrabani, a Calcutta-based institution involved in development communication, and a media critic in his own right, with five title to his credit already, proposes, in his latest work, a militant programme... for another cinema committed to the building up of another society.' He offers revaluations of the established systems of film aesthetics, with fresh insights into the thoughts and works of Eisenstein, Bazin, Welles, and Ray; before analysing the Indian social scene in depth and detail, to suggest a comprehensive model for a parallel Indian cinema, complete with a new scheme for film and media education for the new cinema" -Book blurbISBN: 0861320751Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Preface -- Part one: cinema -- Introduction: a militant programme -- What is it in cinema that makes it cinema -- Montage: the formative principle -- An anthropology of the cinema -- An exercise in film appreciation or the magnificent Andre Bazin -- Author-ity, text-uality and read-in(g) -- Part two: society -- The end of a film era -- Nine and one facts and not a few illusions -- Of many movies and some words to talk about them -- Films for social change -- Politics in film -- The politics of non-political cinema -- The cultural and social influence of foreign films -- History through films and filmed history -- Conclusion -- Film education for a new movie-man -- index
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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 ; CHINA ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; HONG KONG ; 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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Cinema and cultural identity : reflections on films from Japan, India, and China / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.
Call No: 408.1(5) CINAuthor: Dissanayake, Wimal CorpAuthor: Institute of Culture and Communication (East-West Center)Place: Lanham, MDPublisher: University Press of AmericaPubDate: 1988PhysDes: vii, 214 p. ; 24 cmSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN ; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; GENRES ; SAMURAI FILMS ; RAY, SATYAJIT Notes: "Co-published by arrangement with the East-West Center, Institute of Culture and Communication"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0819169455 (alk. paper); 0819169463 (pbk.)LON: 5986435Contents: PART I. JAPAN -- 1. Viewing Japanese film: some considerations / Donald Richie -- 2. The destiny of Samurai films / Michitaro Tada -- 3. The multilayered nature of the tradition of acting in Japanese cinema / Tadao Sato -- 4. Japanese film genres / Audie Bock -- 5. Change in the image of mother in Japanese cinema and television / Tadao Sato -- PART 2. INDIA -- 6. Innovation and imitation in the Indian cinema / Mira Reym Binford -- 7. Art, vision, and culture: Satiyajit Ray's Apu trilogy revisited / Wimal Dissanayake -- 8. The woman: myth and reality in Indian cinema / Aruna Vasudev -- 9. The painted face of politics: the actor politicians of South India / Chidananda Das Gupta -- 10. Songs in Hindi films: nature and function / Teri Skillman -- PART 3. CHINA -- 11. The Chinese film in the 1980s: art and industry / Ma Qiang -- 12. The sinification of cinema: the foreignness of film in China / Paul Clark -- 13. The position of women in new Chinese cinema / Tony Rayns -- 14. Chinese films amidst the tide of reform / Shao Mujun
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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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Multiple modernities : cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau (ed.) Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2003.
Call No: 71(5) MULSource: USPlace: Philadelphia PAPublisher: Temple University PressPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 250 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ASIAN COUNTRIES ; GLOBALISATION ; CHINA ; TAIWAN ; HONG KONG ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA ; KWOK WAH LAU JENNY Summary: Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examine popular culture – most notably cinema and television – to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, and Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collective effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 1566399866
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