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1 online resource (478 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hyphe-Nation; or, Screening 'Asian Canada'; Overview: Looking Back and Looking Forward; Tracking Shots: Mapping the Asian Canadian Filmscape; Eating Chinese; Stills Part I; Rice Bowl Diaries; F-Words; Memory, Again; Vancouver Asian: West Coast Film Cultures, on the Rim and at the end of the Line; The King of Main: Unplugged; 'Let your Fingers do the WAlking': Rereading HO TAM's the Yellow Pages; Stills Part II; Men and Monsters; Albertasia: Asian Canadian Films on the Prairies; Home Misses You |
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Searching for the White-Haired GirlLetters from Seoul; Adventures in Celluloid Gold Mountain; Stills Part III; Queer Hongcouver and Other Fictions; Black Magic Buddhism; Cinematic Imag(in)ings of the Japanese Canadian Internment; Chinatown Tomb Raider: Reflections on Kung fu Fridays; La Chinoise; or, 'the other'; Reel Asian, then and Now; Snapshots; Stills Part IV; Resources; Contributors; Artists' Works; Distributor Contact Information; Image and Photo Credits; Appendix |
| Summary |
Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival fosters the exchange of cultural and artistic ideals between East and West, provides a public forum for homegrown Asian media artists and their work and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada. In Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, contributors, many of them filmmakers, examine East and Southeast Asian Canadian contributions to independent film and video. From arti |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Canada -- History
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Independent films -- Canada -- History and criticism
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Experimental films -- Canada -- History and criticism
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Experimental films
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Independent films
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Motion pictures
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Canada
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781770561878 |
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1770561870 |
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