| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations |
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TransAsia: screen cultures |
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TransAsia--screen cultures.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The city's edge / James Tweedie and Yomi Braester -- Interlude 1: Arriving in the city; touring the city; watching the city / Yomi Braester -- Affective spaces in Hong Kong / Chinese cinema / Ackbar Abbas -- Ghost towns / Dudley Andrew -- Interlude 2: Workspace / James Tweedie -- Taipei as Shinijuku's other / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- City of youth, ocean of death: Taiyōzooku on the edge of an island / Yiman Wang -- Interlude 3: Neon / James Tweedie -- Transfiguring the postsocialist city: experimental image-making in contemporary China / Zhang Zhen -- Noir looks and flash of transgression: trauma and the city's edge(s) in A bittersweet life / Susie Jie Young Kim -- Technology and (Chinese) ethnicity / Darrell William Davis -- Interlude 4: In the name of the city / Yomi Braester -- Imaging the globalized city: Rem Koolhaas, U-thèque, and the Pearl River Delta / Chris Berry -- At the center of the outside: Japanese cinema nowhere / Akira Mizuta Lippit |
| Summary |
These essays trace common concerns among East Asian cinemas of Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the PRC, and Taiwan, and go beyond the now familiar notion that the Asian metropolises are successful iterations of local identity within a global network |
| Notes |
"This volume is the outcome of a conference held at the University of Washington in April 2006"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- East Asia -- Congresses
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Digital cinematography -- East Asia -- Congresses
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Cities and towns -- East Asia -- Growth -- Congresses
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Urbanization -- East Asia -- Congresses
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Cities and towns in motion pictures -- Congresses
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DRAMA.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Cities and towns in motion pictures
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Cities and towns -- Growth
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Digital cinematography
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Motion pictures
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Urbanization
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East Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Braester, Yomi, editor
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Tweedie, James, editor
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| LC no. |
2010525311 |
| ISBN |
9789882206052 |
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9882206050 |
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9789882206069 |
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9882206069 |
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9882206735 |
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9789882206731 |
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1283016923 |
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9781283016926 |
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9786613016928 |
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6613016926 |
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