... a­ lly bec­ ame subo­ r­din­ ated to the de­mands of Malayism. By this time, the in­sti­tu­tion of sult­ans is imp­ ort­ant . . . b ut [it is im­por­tant only] as a guar­an­tee and sym­bol of Malay kebangsaan [nat­ion­ali­­ty] visvis the fore­ ign bangsa [na­tion] in Malaya (Ariffin Omar 1993...

... (Chinese-majority) Singaporean and (Malay Muslim–majority) Malaysian cinemas. Importantly these films, while read through psychoanalytical frames, also require knowledge about pertinent social issues and the region's histories to understand the racial and national allegories pontianak films enact...

..., and the kung fu genre as a whole still functions as a point of reference for reactions against expressions of nationalism in cinema. The book offers a welcome comprehensive coverage. Timothy Barnard's essay on Shaw Brothers' Malay films and Sai-shing Yung's essay on the Shaws' expansion into Malaya reveal...

... to herself is mirrored in the softcore pornography of Philippine cinema. The second essay, by the Jesuit priest Jose Mario C. Francisco, encodes Reynaldo Ileto's thesis in its title: "The Christ Story as Subversive Memory of Tradition." Francisco contextualizes the homiletic tradition, showing...

... cinema after the Cold War. Chapter 5 turns to Yi Shui, a Singaporean Chinese director who made “Malayanized Chinese-language cinema” that reflected a multilingual and hybridized Chinese culture and resisted the oppression from English- and Malay-speaking groups. Yi supported a multicultural...

... as the phonograph, the cinema, and other cultural forms associated with later urban modernity in the colonial Indies (p. xii). Certain Komedie entertainment styles even shaped the circus shows of the American-based P. T. Barnum Company. After traveling in Europe, a later form of Komedie-type drama, Dardanela (along...

...] LAU (ed Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia [AILI MU] LEVINSON and CHRISTENSEN (eds Encyclopedia of Modern Asia [EDWARD L. FARMER] LI, Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea [YUE-MAN YEUNG...

... and/or colonial powers in shaping everything from literature (e.g., Shen 2017 ) and cinema (Xu 2017 ) to religion (e.g., Ford 2017 ). Such work is also starting to complicate Tony Day's ( 2010 , 2) assertion that the Cold War in Asia was “driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by global forces...

... Arswendo Atmowiloto says [p. 285 I was struck many times, as I read Quinn's descriptions of Javanese attitudes and their expression in novels, how easily he could be speaking of contemporary Indonesian cinema, and how useful his analysis is to understanding the to the Western eye strange aesthetic, story...

... Cinema (1971). Together with Richie's earlier Japanese Film: Art and Industry, co-authored with Joseph Anderson, and his more recent studies of individual directors such as Kurosawa and Ozu, it sets the standard in its field. Other film experts are emerging as well Audie Bock, for example and it seems...

... the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema [HONGWEI LU] DELL ORTO, Place and Spirit in Taiwan: Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies, and Memories of Everyday Life [PHILIP CLART] DICKSON, Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change [JOSEPH...

...-language schools instilled work discipline, cultivated camaraderie through sports, and sharpened the mind and awakened political consciousness through open debate. Malay, the contact language of the streets, was taught as a second language. Students took on distant attitudes to their “kitchen languages...

... consideration of cinema as an element in political mobilization in Tamil Nadu. There are, as well, some lacunae in Pandian's bibliography, and the result is a thinness in some of his discussions of the cultural presuppositions in common people's common sense. For example, MGR augmented his heroic film persona...

... the story does not let us view life in a Northeast Thai village holistically. Rather, it allows us to see only shattered fragments. In this manner, unfortunately, film and book are true to the state of Thai cinema and the expectations of their audiences. Thanks are due to Gehan Wijeyewardene for the fine...

..., Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam [FREDERICK S. PAXTON] DAVENPORT-HINES and JONES (eds British Business in Asia Since 1860 [NICHOLAS R. CLIFFORD] DEMAINE and MALONG (eds Decentralization: Area Development in Practice in Asia [CAROL HENDERSON] DISSANAYAKE (ed Cinema and Cultural Identity: Reflections...

..., performers) and briefly describe trends and market conditions. Deborah Wong compares two Thai cassette covers for what they reveal about authenticity, ownership, and commodification in the contrasting modes of commercial promotion of Thai contemporary pop and classical music. Chapters 5 to 7 deal with cinema...

..., "Maurice Freedman, 1920-1975: Obituary"; G. William Skinner (Compiler), "Maurice Freedman: Bibliography." B E R R Y , Chris, ed. Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. London: British Film Institute; Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1991. 176 pp. $51.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Expanded edition...

... LIPP1T and SELDEN (eds. and trans Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers [VICTORIA VERNON 155 NAKAGAWA] MCDONALD, Cinema East: A Critical Study of MajorJapanese Films [AUDIE E. BOCK] 546 MOSK, Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880-1960 [RONALD NAPIER] 767 MUTSU; BERGER (ed. and trans...

... [A. TERRY RAMBO] 136 DAVID and OTSUKA (eds Modern Rice Technology and Income Distribution in Asia 893 [ROSAMOND NAYLOR] DIRLIK (ed What Is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea [KHAIRY A. 895 TOURK] DISSANAYAKE (ed Melodrama and Asian Cinema [DOUGLAS WILKERSON] DIXON and DRAKAKIS-SMITH...

..." South Asia BABB, L. A., "Monks and Miracles: Religious Symbols and Images of Origin among Osval Jains" CONTURSI, JANET A., "Political Theology: Text and Practice in a Dalit Panther Community" DAVIS, RICHARD H . , "Indian Art Objects as Loot" DICKEY, SARA, "The Politics of Adulation: Cinema...