Issue 11 – Editorial
[1] Film/culture adaptation in Asia As Robert C. Allen pointed out in an article in Screen in 1990 [2] , it is easy to overlook the fact that film/cinema is a social…
Dancing shadows of film exhibition: Taiwan and the Japanese influence
(with Penny Lin, Kelly Chu-Chun Fan, and Lucia Tai-Yun Cheng) Uploaded 1 November 2000 1.Taiwan and the world The world's first cinematic performance took place in the Grand Café of…
Xiand yingxi: the interaction between traditional theatre and Chinese cinema
Uploaded 1 November 2000 Cinema arrived in China from the West in 1896, one year after the Lumière brothers showed their films in a café in Paris on 28 December…
Comprehensive connections: the film industry, the theatre and the state in the early Japanese cinema.
Uploaded 1 November 2000 Women in cinema Introduction In 1931 Japanese critics rated the Shochiku company's first full talkie, Madamu to nyobo (The Neighbour's Wife and Mine, dir. Gosho Heinosuke), the best…
One print in the age of mechanical reproduction: film industry and culture in 1910s Japan
[1] Uploaded 1 November 2000 The September 1917 Katsudo no sekai (Movie World), containing probably one of the first attempts at a broad factual overview of the Japanese film industry, is a…
Yingxi (shadow play): the initial Chinese conception about film
Uploaded 1 November 2000 Film was invented at the end of the 19th century in a number of Western capitalist countries as a result of certain technological developments. Though China had…
Close encounters of the generic kind: a case study in Thai sci-fi
[1] Uploaded 1 November 2000 One of the most startling groups of images in the visually arresting Thai science fiction film Kawow tee Bangpleng (1994, directed by Nirattisai Kaljareuk) [2] occurs…
Hong Kong cinema in the 1930s: docility, social hygiene, pleasure-seeking & the consolidation of the film industry
[1] Uploaded 1 November 2000 This paper explores the final consolidation of Hong Kong's film industry in the 1930s, over thirty years after cinema was introduced to the colony, and…
Animation in Asia: appropriation, reinterpretation, and adoption or adaptation
Uploaded 1 November 2000 Locating the original influences on Asian animation can be a daunting task, illustrated by the following two vignettes. 1. Sometime in 1923, the four Wan brothers,…
National cinema and the beginning of film history in/of Bangladesh
Uploaded 1 November 2000 Introduction Like most other places in the world, film exhibition began in Bangladesh (in the then East Bengal) at the end of the 1890s; like much…