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  • Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics

    Series series Gender and Globalization
    The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female agency, creating a ... Read more

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  • Documentary Across Platforms

    Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics

    Essays "capturing media ecologies as varied as museum installations, film festival showings, photography, and multiple varieties of internet sharing." — Jump CutIn Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage ... Read more

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  • Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era

    Series series Critical Asian Cinemas
    Manoeuvring around mainland China’s censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries. Focusing on films from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, this book considers how female directors shape ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection offers new approaches to theorizing Asian film in relation to the history, culture, geopolitics and economics of the continent. Bringing together original essays written by established and emerging scholars, this anthology transcends the limitations of national borders to do justice to the diverse ways in which the cinema shapes Asia geographically and imaginatively in the world ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film.Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections ... Read more

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  • Citing China

    Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema

    Series series Critical Interventions
    Citing China explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between China and the rest of the world. It does so by examining the depiction of China in contemporary film, looking at how global filmmakers “cite” China on screen. Author Gina Marchetti’s aim is not to point to how China continues to function as a metaphor or allusion that has ... Read more

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  • Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema

    No Film is An Island

    Edited by Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus, its inextricable links across the decades to Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, the United States, and to ... Read more

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  • Queer TV China

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    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, ... Read more

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  • Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

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    As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian ... Read more

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  • Subaltern China

    Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices

    by Wanning Sun ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
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