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Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Contemporary Korean Cinema Culture, Identity and Politics Hyangjin Lee Manchester University Press This comprehensive book defines the significance of film-making and film viewing in Korea. Covering the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema...

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From Impressionism to Anime

Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West

Susan J. Napier Palgrave Macmillan

What is it about anime that is so appealing to a transnational fan base? Is the American attraction to anime similar to the popularity of previous fads of...

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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Stray Dog of Anime The Films of Mamoru Oshii Brian Ruh Palgrave Macmillan Upon its US release in the mid-1990s Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animation films, or anime,...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	In Godzilla's Footsteps Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage Edited by William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito Palgrave Macmillan These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they were shaped (by and in turn shaped) postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Evanescence and Form An Introduction to Japanese Culture Charles Shiro Inouye Palgrave Macmillan If we thought that reality were changeable, fragile, and fleeting, would we take life more seriously or less seriously? This book contemplates the notion of...

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Japanamerica

How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.

Roland Kelts Palgrave Macmillan

Japanamerica is the first book that directly addresses the American experience with the Japanese pop culture craze--including anime from Hayao Miyazaki's epics...

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Conquering the Desert of Death Across the Taklamakan Charles Blackmore Tauris Parke Paperbacks The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Northeast Asia's Difficult Past Essays in Collective Memory Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Edited by Barry Schwartz and Mikyoung Kim Palgrave Macmillan The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative:...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Secrecy in Japanese Arts "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge Maki Isaka Morinaga Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the Japanese tradition of secret transmission of knowledge within a closed and often hereditary group. The author investigates how esoteric...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness Katherine Mezur Palgrave Macmillan This book is a feminist reading of the history of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnagata, of the Kabuki theater. It is not...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory Postcolonialism and Film Theory Language, Discourse, Society Reena Dube Palgrave Macmillan This book explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labor in colonial and postcolonial conditions....

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Bad Girls of Japan Edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley Palgrave Macmillan Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film Chris Desjardins I.B. Tauris Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Reading 'Bollywood' The Young Audience and Hindi Films Shakuntala Banaji Palgrave Macmillan This book brings together a rare mix of original audience research in India and the UK, socio-political context, and textual detail to shed light on how young...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Orientalism, Empire and National Culture Michael S. Dodson Palgrave Macmillan A reinterpretation of British orientalism in India, which, through an examination of the enabling relationship between British administrators and Indian...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Cinema Anime Edited by Steven T. Brown Palgrave Macmillan This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of...

Trade Paperback : $27.95 Buy	TV in Greater China: The Regional Link in Cultural Globalisation International Screen Industries Joseph Man Chan British Film Institute Aims to identify and examine how various factors interact to affect the development of TV within the Chinese social system, looking at three markets--China,...

Trade Paperback : $31.95 Buy	Chinese Films in Focus II Chris Berry British Film Institute Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Yellow Earth and In the Mood for Love, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre Spectral Genealogies and Absent Faces Studies in International Performance Edited by Evan Darwin Winet Palgrave Macmillan Drawing examples from as early as a 1619 production of Hamlet and as recent as 2007 performances by Indonesia’s most famous presidential impersonator, this...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997 The Post-Nostalgic Imagination Vivian P.Y. Lee Palgrave Macmillan Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics -- the...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy The Silent Victims of World War II Mayumi Itoh Palgrave Macmillan The Japanese government disposed of “dangerous animals” (not only carnivores but also herbivores, such as elephants) in zoos and circuses during World War II,...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Taiwan Cinema A Contested Nation on Screen Guo-Juin Hong Palgrave Macmillan *Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION's Weekly Book List, April 4, 2011* Interview with the author:...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea Edited By Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia Palgrave Macmillan How do East Asian cultural heritages shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines...

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, Updated Edition Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation Susan J. Napier Palgrave Macmillan Updated and expanded edition of Susan Napier's cult classic, in-depth, sophisticated look at Japanese animation

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