Jeffrey Ruoff and Kenneth Ruoff, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yukiyukite Shingun) Trowbridge, UK: Flicks Books, 1998 ISBN 0948911050. 57 pp. £ 9.9.5 stg (paper) (Review copy supplied by…
Ten years of Screening the Past is reason for congratulation and celebration! But it also merits some reflection. The news that the journal has been going for a decade has come as…
Uploaded 25 March 1998 If Japanese film was the first non-Western cinema to receive sustained Western interest and Chinese has been the most recent, it is notable that English-language scholarship…
Michael J. Shapiro, Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 7486 1289 0 176 pp £16.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh…
Stuart Cunningham and John Sinclair (eds), Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2000 ISBN 0 7022 31223 244pp AU$29.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by…
Eric Cazdyn, The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8223 2929 5 316 pp US$21.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Leon Hunt, Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger. London: Wallflower, 2003. ISBN: 1 903364 63 9 229 pp £15.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press)…
Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. ISBN 0 299 18134 0 544 pp US$24.95…
Daniel Bernardi, (ed.) Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ISBN: 08166 3239 1. 516pp. US$24.95 (Review copy supplied by Minnesota University Press) Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card:…
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis, Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 231 12898 3 (hb) US$69.50 ISBN: 0 231 12899…
Jerome Silbergeld, China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema London: Reaktion Books, 1999. ISBN 1861890508 352pp AU$59.95(paper) (Review copy supplied by Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd)…
Chris Berry, “China’s New Women’s Cinema” originally appeared in Camera Obscura, Volume 18. Copyright 1989 Camera Obscura. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Duke University Press. “Women’s…