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Author : Peter Pugsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315581682
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema written by Peter Pugsley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter C. Pugsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317137299
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema written by Peter C. Pugsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that arise over aesthetic styles and the cultural and traditional influences that determine the content and impact of these films. The social and regulatory environments for filmmakers across Asia reflect distinct national and cultural differences. In just the past decade, for instance, Indian cinema has rapidly moved from representations of coy and submissive female protagonists to highly eroticized leading ladies unafraid of flaunting their sexuality. On the other hand, the cinema emerging from the Chinese mainland has been much more circumspect in its representations of overt sexuality, at times in conflict with other Chinese cinemas from Hong Kong and Taiwan. This use of sexual imagery or morally questionable film content raises on-going debates into censorship and the use of state or industry controls to protect certain sectors of society from exposure to particular narratives or images. Film, like all forms of art, fulfils a number of aesthetic functions for local, regional and international audiences. As distribution and technological advances make Asian films more readily available across the globe, an understanding of the different aesthetics at play will enable readers of this book to recognize key cultural motifs in representations of onscreen sexuality and the surrounding controversies found in cinematic texts from Asia.
Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192568043
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Film Studies written by Annette Kuhn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articles on popular topics and terms, revised and informative bibliographies for most entries, and more than 100 web links to supplement the text.
Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000584356
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Media in Asia written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and Asian studies, it provides an empirically rich and stimulating tour of key areas of study. The book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in one up-to-date and accessible volume, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today.
Author : Vikneswaran Nair
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845417534
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Responsible Rural Tourism in Asia written by Vikneswaran Nair and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rural tourism sector has become a key driver for social and economic growth and a major source of income for developing and low-income countries in many parts of Asia. Rural tourism is progressively viewed as a solution, increasing the economic viability of marginalised areas, stimulating social regeneration and improving the living conditions of rural communities. Responsible rural tourism promotes conservation of the natural environment, protects the authenticity of culture, and offers socioeconomic opportunities and benefits for local communities. This book encompasses case studies from a range of Asian countries and examines both successful and failed attempts in developing responsible rural tourism, and the learnings that we can adopt and adapt for future responsible rural tourism in the region. It will be of interest to students, researchers, stakeholders and policymakers in tourism.
Author : Peter C. Pugsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501382969
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Cinematic Influence written by Peter C. Pugsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packed with vivid examples and case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and many others. It illustrates the vast array of cinematic connections that mark a long history of mutual influence and reverence between filmmakers in France and Japan. The book provides new insights into the ways that national cinemas resist Hollywood to maintain and strengthen their own cultural practices and how these national cinemas perform the task of informing and enlightening other cultures about what it means to be French or Japanese. This book also deepens our understandings of film's role as a viable cultural and economic player in individual nations. Importantly, the reader will see that film operates as a form of cultural exchange between France and Japan, and more broadly, Europe and Asia. This is the first major book to investigate the crossover between these two diverse national cinemas by tracking their history of shared narrative and stylistic techniques.
Author : Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190865873
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Proximity of Other Skins written by Celine Parreñas Shimizu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational films that represent intimacy and inequality produce new experiences that result in the displacement of the universal spectator, in a redefinition of the power of cinema for today's global audiences. The Proximity of Other Skins examines transnational films that achieve global prominence in presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex. Author Celine Parreñas Shimizu traverses independent films by Gina Kim and Ramona Diaz to the global cinema of Laurent Cantet, Park Chan-wook and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza and their representations of transnational intimacies. In doing so, she addresses unexpected encounters in the global movement of people and goods within their geopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts. In these celebrated films that move across continents, she finds ways to expand our definition of intimacy, including explicit sex and relations that go beyond sex, enabling us the opportunity to theorize how people now live together in many spheres of contemporary life. Readers can then better understand how intimacy can affirm and express love, but also alienate and oppress, revealing the loneliness, pain, and suffering within transnational, national, and personal relations of power and hierarchy. In studying representations of intimacy, the book calls to expand our vocabulary of moving images and its role in redefining care work and affective relations between people across difference and inequality. The book addresses cinematic intimacies between husbands/wives/lovers, understanding between sex workers and clients, close familiarity between rich and poor, and new affinities between citizen and refugee and laborer and capitalist.
Author : Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414654
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Melodrama and Asian Cinema written by Wimal Dissanayake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.
Author : Andrew Grossman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Queer Asian Cinema written by Andrew Grossman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published simultaneously as Journal Of Homosexuality, volume 39, number 3/4 (2000), this collection brings together experts in film- making and movie criticism to examine the aesthetics and politics of homosexuality in Asian films. From the subversive sadomasochism of Japan's "pink films" to the hard-boiled world of Hong Kong gangster flicks, this book analyzes and discusses attitudes toward homosexuality in the full spectrum of Asian film. In addition to studies of the representation of identified gay men, lesbians, and transgendered people, it reveals the hidden homoerotic subtext of otherwise conventional films. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Raquel A.G. Reyes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136297227
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950 written by Raquel A.G. Reyes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western travel narratives, missionary accounts, and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality, and how was this influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity over time and place? What sex practices were tolerated or even encouraged by society, community, and religious ritual, and what acts were considered undesirable, transgressive and worthy of punishment? Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600-1950 is the first book to foreground same- sex acts and pleasure seeking in the histories of India, China, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. Drawing on a range of indigenous and foreign sources, the contributors, all renowned experts in their fields, shed light on indigenous notions of gender and the body, social hierarchies, fundamental ideas concerning morality and immorality, and episodes of seduction. The book illuminates - in striking case studies – attitudes toward non-procreative sex acts, and representations and experiences of same-sex pleasure seeking in the histories of Asia. This path-breaking book is an important contribution to the study of gender and sexuality in Asian cultures and will also interest students and scholars of world history.
Author : Celine Shimizu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804782202
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Straitjacket Sexualities written by Celine Shimizu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parreñas Shimizu—aggravates Asian American male sexual problems both on and off screen. Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies looks to cinematic history to reveal the dynamic ways Asian American men, from Bruce Lee to Long Duk Dong, create and claim a variety of masculinities. Representations of love, romance, desire, and lovemaking show how Asian American men fashion manhoods that negotiate the dynamics of self and other, expanding our ideas of sexuality. The unique ways in which Asian American men express intimacy is powerfully represented onscreen, offering distinct portraits of individuals struggling with group identities. Rejecting "macho" men, these movies stake Asian American manhood on the notion of caring for, rather than dominating, others. Straitjacket Sexualities identifies a number of moments in the movies wherein masculinity is figured anew. By looking at intimate relations on screen, power as sexual prowess and brute masculinity is redefined, giving primacy to the diverse ways Asian American men experience complex, ambiguous, and ambivalent genders and sexualities.
Author : Rashmi Doraiswamy
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 8183282083
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Asian Film Journeys written by Rashmi Doraiswamy and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For lovers of Asian cinema and for those simply curious to know its trends and moods, experiments and innovations since it strode the world stage with assurance in the mid- 80s, Asian Film Journeys is a feast. It presents a selection of articles that appeared in the pages of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly between 1988 and 2004, articles that closely tracked the bold new film narrative of both the well-known and the lesser-known cinemas as it unfolded. The Quarterly remained, for fifteen years, the one and only serious yet lively platform for writing on the cinemas of Asian countries. Given that the writers were mostly Asian-apart from some keen and long-standing followers of Asian cinema from the West-the magazine offered, for the first time, a truly authentic point of view, a look at films from within their cultures. The book gives a bird’s eye view of the style and substance, art and craft of these cinemas and captures some of the Asian air it let in!
Author : Geetanjali Misra
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sexuality, Gender and Rights written by Geetanjali Misra and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2005-11-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses and documents the groundbreaking work done by many organisations to bring issues of sexuality and rights to public attention, to expand the freedoms of women and sexual minorities and to highlight the unfair distinctions faced by those not conforming to gender and sexual norms across a range of expressions, behaviours and identities in Asia. This volume covers eight countries in South and Southeast Asia. The contributors address issues of power and social hierarchies by using the principles of justice, equality, non-discrimination, and access to rights and services. They cover diverse issues like sexual rights, sexuality education, sexual health services, transsexuals and other sexual minorities, HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as sex work and the representation of sexuality in popular culture.
Author : Tan Hoang Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822356721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (567 download)
Download or read book A View from the Bottom written by Tan Hoang Nguyen and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.
Author : Celine Shimizu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804773010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Straitjacket Sexualities written by Celine Shimizu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parreñas Shimizu—aggravates Asian American male sexual problems both on and off screen. Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies looks to cinematic history to reveal the dynamic ways Asian American men, from Bruce Lee to Long Duk Dong, create and claim a variety of masculinities. Representations of love, romance, desire, and lovemaking show how Asian American men fashion manhoods that negotiate the dynamics of self and other, expanding our ideas of sexuality. The unique ways in which Asian American men express intimacy is powerfully represented onscreen, offering distinct portraits of individuals struggling with group identities. Rejecting "macho" men, these movies stake Asian American manhood on the notion of caring for, rather than dominating, others. Straitjacket Sexualities identifies a number of moments in the movies wherein masculinity is figured anew. By looking at intimate relations on screen, power as sexual prowess and brute masculinity is redefined, giving primacy to the diverse ways Asian American men experience complex, ambiguous, and ambivalent genders and sexualities.
Author : Peter C. Pugsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501382950
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Cinematic Influence written by Peter C. Pugsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packed with vivid examples and case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and many others. It illustrates the vast array of cinematic connections that mark a long history of mutual influence and reverence between filmmakers in France and Japan. The book provides new insights into the ways that national cinemas resist Hollywood to maintain and strengthen their own cultural practices and how these national cinemas perform the task of informing and enlightening other cultures about what it means to be French or Japanese. This book also deepens our understandings of film's role as a viable cultural and economic player in individual nations. Importantly, the reader will see that film operates as a form of cultural exchange between France and Japan, and more broadly, Europe and Asia. This is the first major book to investigate the crossover between these two diverse national cinemas by tracking their history of shared narrative and stylistic techniques.
Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786000012007
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
Download or read book East Asian Cinemas written by Leon Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
