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...Koen De Ceuster Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier . By Theodore Hughes . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . xi, 271 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 In concluding this riveting study...

...Jing Jing Chang Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories . Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh . Ann Arbor : Michigan University Press , 2018 . 354 pp. ISBN: 9780472053728 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

...Linda C. Ehrlich Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema . By Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2000 . 485 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 877 Part 3, "Outside...

...Jessica Ka Yee Chan Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory . By Victor Fan . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . xii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780816693573 (paper, also available in cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Miri Nakamura Introduction to Japanese Horror Film . By Colette Balmain . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2008 . xi, 214 pp. $115.00 (cloth); $32.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Colette Balmain's book is an ambitious work...

...Alexander C. Y. Huang Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island . By Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis . New York : Columbia University Press , 2005 . x , 296 pp. $28.00 (paper); $75.00 (cloth). Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts . Edited...

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... that Scruggs could distinguish and justify the use of these terms in just a few additional pages; thus the subtitle is in fact the text's more accurate title: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film . Notwithstanding my opinion of the book's title, the text is both essential and highly...

...Vivienne Shue Abstract These three excellent documentaries have received both high honors from the film world and an appreciative welcome from Asia scholars eager to make use of them in the classroom. Students and non-China specialists seeing them for the first time generally praise them...

...Ackbar Abbas Gender and Culture in Literature and Film East and West: Issues of Perception and Interpretation . Edited by Nataya Masavisut and George Simson , and Larry E. Smith . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . xxxv, 197 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Wimal Dissanayake Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film . Edited by Mick Broderick . London and New York : Kegan Paul International , 1996 . 255 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 223...

...Daisuke Miyao Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film . By Darrell William Davis . New York : Columbia University Press , 1996 . viii, 304 pp. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 515 artist...

...Lalitha Gopalan Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction . By M. Madhava Prasad . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . ix, 258 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Pakistan Cinema, 1947–1997 . By Mushtaq Gazdar . The Jubilee Series. Karachi : Oxford University Press , 1997...

...Kyoko Hirano Archetypes in Japanese Film: The Sociopolitical and Religious Significance of the Principal Heroes and Heroines . By Gregory Barrett . Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press , 1989 . 252 pp. $47.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990...

...Shao-Yi Sun The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender . By Yingjin Zhang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . xix, 390 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 198...

...John (Song Pae) Cho Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea . By Young-a Park . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2014 . xx, 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth, ISBN 9780804783613 ); $39.95 (e-book, ISBN...

...Michael Raine Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement . By Joanne Bernardi . Detroit : Wayne State University Press , 2001 . 354 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 610 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Gina Marchetti China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema . By Jerome Silbergeld . London : Reaktion Books , 1999 . 352 pp. £19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1232 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES government...