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  • Hanyo (The Housemaid)

    by Youngmin Choe ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy… The director Kim Ko-young played a formative part in South Korean cinema's “Golden Age” of the 1960s and 1970s; his 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Housemaid), rescued and restored after almost being lost ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Tourist Distractions

    Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema

    by Youngmin Choe ...
    In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses hallyu (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration of the tourist imaginary into hallyu cinema points to the region's evolving transnational politics ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Korean Popular Culture Reader

    Edited by Kyung Hyun Kim, Youngmin Choe ...
    Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for the study of "K-pop," relating the contemporary cultural landscape to its historical roots. The essays in this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Illusive Utopia

    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"One of this book's strengths is how ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Queer Cinema in the World

    by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt ...
    Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema

    by Kyung Hyun Kim, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular, authoritarian culture into a democratic and cosmopolitan society. The transition has fueled anxiety ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hong Kong Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational “texts” in film, fiction, architecture and other forms of visual culture. The city has been a cultural fault-line for centuries—a translation space where Chinese-ness is interpreted for “Westerners” and Western-ness is translated for Chinese. Though constantly refreshed by its Chinese roots and global influences, this hub of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    by Jason McGrath, Chris Berry, Sheldon H. Lu ...
    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ayn Rand Explained

    From Tyranny to Tea Party

    by Ronald E. Merrill, Marsha Familaro Enright ...
    Series Book 10 - Ideas Explained
    Fifty-five years after Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand is more in the news than ever. Ayn Rand Explained is an accurate and riveting account of Rand’s life, work, and influence, with the emphasis on her ideas.The book covers Rand’s career, from youth in Soviet Russia to Hollywood screenwriter and then to ideological guru; her novels and other fiction writings; her work in ethics, epistemology, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Companion to Wong Kar-wai

    Edited by Martha P. Nochimson ...
    Series Book 13 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
    With 25 essays that embrace a wide spectrum of topics and perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong’s highly original portrayal of violence, A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the ... Read more

    $181.00 USD