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1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 36 |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 36.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Asian Cinemas and the Potential of Cinematic Space; 2 Between the Visible and the Intelligible in Asian Cinema; Ephemeral Space; 3 Notes from Elsewhere: Spaces of Longing in Trần Anh Hùng's Vertical Ray of the Sun; 4 Between Demolition and Construction: Performing Drifting Identities in Jia Zhangke's Films; 5 Chasing Inuka: Rambling around Singapore through Tan Pin Pin's Films; 6 Chiang Mai and the Cinematic Spaces of Thai Identity; Imagined Space; 7 The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime |
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8 Imagining Nanyang: Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in Wong Kar-wai Movies9 Air Hostess and Atmosphere: The Persistence of the Tableau; 10 Space and Verisimilitude in the Films of Singapore's "Golden Age"; Contested Space; 11 Performing the Multicultural Space in Opera Jawa: The Tension Between National and Transnational Stages; 12 Cinema as Ritual Space: O Meul's Jiseul; 13 Counterperformance: The Heartland and Other Spaces in Eating Air and 15; 14 Ismene and Antigone in Sri Lanka's Black Cinema; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia. Concentrating on the performative potential of cinematic space in Asian films, the contributors discuss how space (re)constructs forms of identities and meanings across a range of cinematic practices. Cities, landscapes, buildings a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 29, 2015) |
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Space and time in motion pictures.
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Space in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures and transnationalism.
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Motion pictures -- East Asia -- History
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Motion pictures -- Southeast Asia -- History
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Motion pictures -- South Asia -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures and transnationalism
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Space and time in motion pictures
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Space in motion pictures
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East Asia
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South Asia
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Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chee, Lilian, editor.
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Lim, Edna, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781134629534 |
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1134629532 |
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9781315885575 |
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1315885573 |
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9781134629602 |
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1134629605 |
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9781134629671 |
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1134629672 |
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1138549045 |
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9781138549043 |
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