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- Cinema at the City's Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
- Series: TransAsia: Screen Cultures
summary
This anthology presents a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian cinema studies, including Ackbar Abbas, Chris Berry, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Dudley Andrew, Yomi Braester, Susie Jie Young Kim, Akira Mizuta Lippit, James Tweedie, Yiman Wang and Zhang Zhen. Through a range of interdisciplinary responses that simultaneously investigate film practices and technologies, the contributors offer a timely look at the ever-shifting cities in East Asia and their portrayal in cinema.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- List of Contributors
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction: The City’s Edge
- pp. 1-16
- Interlude 1: Arriving in the City
- pp. 17-22
- Part I - The City Vanishes
- 2 - Ghost Towns
- pp. 37-47
- Interlude 2: Workspace
- pp. 49-52
- Part II - A Regional Network of Cities
- 3 - Taipei as Shinjuku’s Other
- pp. 55-67
- Interlude 3: Neon
- pp. 89-92
- Part III - The City of Media Networks
- 7 - Technology and (Chinese) Ethnicity
- pp. 137-150
- Interlude 4: In the Name of the City
- pp. 151-152
- Part IV - The City Is Elsewhere
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882206052
Related ISBN(s)
9789622099838
MARC Record
OCLC
710113067
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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