Cinema Studies

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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

A comprehensive study of China’s ethnic minority cinema from the Republican Era to the present

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

The Films of Suzuki Seijun

The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies

Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema

A film-by-film introduction to Taiwan cinema and cultures

“A Great Wall”

A Learning Guide

Second Edition

A student guide for the critically acclaimed 1986 film A Great Wall

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

The first comprehensive volume examining the state, stakes, and future direction of Korean cinema studies.
 

Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China

Kaleidoscopic Histories

A pathbreaking collection of essays on early Chinese-language cinema

My Life as a Filmmaker

A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910–83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors

Screening China

Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Pushes back against the Western critical appetite for ethnic and cultural markers in Chinese film, narrating how Chinese filmmakers increasingly escape Western demands and screen China’s many facets

Disenchanted Democracy

Chinese Cultural Criticism after 1989

A critical appraisal of Chinese intellectual development in the 1990s