.... The essay high-lights the remarkable work of Chris Marker, who died in 2012, one day after his ninety-first birthday. A well-known photographer, filmmaker, and artist, he visited the North four years after the air war ended and published a remarkable book of photos—one that also remains unknown or forgotten...

... 952 Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, James Whistler, and Edgar Degas; poet Ezra Pound and theorists Max Weber and Roland Barthes; and film- makers Chris Marker and Wim Wenders. And so she concludes that the cycle remains...

... personal state- ments about their own senses of loss and desire. In Sans Soleil a sprawling travel monologue lmed mostly in Japan and West Africa, cinema- verité director Chris Marker expresses that “only banality still positions 20:4 Fall 2012...

...- ing contested, ironized, and called into question US sovereignty claims over Korea. In his photo essay, which pays tribute to the French filmmaker and pho- tographer Chris Marker, historian Bruce Cumings begins with a thesis...

... Marker while studying in the United States.54 This may help explain Nostalgia’s reflexive style and its constant emphasis on its own mediated nature. The fact that it was made at all, how- ever, reflects how digital video has expedited...

... marker of an essential, inviolable communal iden- tity or tradition? Anne McClintock and others have argued that a gender critique of nationalism reveals the ways in which the nation is construed in terms of familial and domestic metaphors...

... that local officials and scholars make to marry the cultural economy with regional developmental agendas while attending to the symbolic values of King Yu s mythology. Here, temporality becomes a pronounced marker of indigeneity for the Qiang: history is not a passive temporal terrain sealed in the past...

.... For this reason, I have chosen to use the phrase, “contemporary art in Asia,” rather than “contemporary Asian art,” which tends to act as a taxonomic marker, closing down the inter- rogative affect raised by the fragment, “in Asia.” Is it a geographical...

...-­ NUS’s inaugural provost did concede in a later meeting with me that the known Singaporean “OBs” — originally a golf term short for “out-­of-­bounds markers” adopted in Singapore since the early 1990s to mark the limits on permissible political...

.... Touristic representations are coded with “mark- ers,” that is, any information about a specific sight that defines it. Some of these markers take on a particularly symbolic status; in the case of Japan, Mount Fuji is the example par excellence...

... during the medieval period. Naturally anti-Buddhists included this dietary peculiarity among their points of attack. Also, the more specific avoidance of pork by Muslims was a well-established marker of identity, similarly activated...

..., “clothing can serve both as a vehicle of individual iden- tity and social distinction and as a marker of belonging to a group.”2 My interest in fashion in this article is similar to Judd Stitzel’s in his study of clothing, politics, and consumer...

... for state- sponsored sacri ces. Over time, the ban evolved into a “social marker” of community: Han Chinese abstained from bovine sacri ce and beef eating to de ne religious communities and to distinguish themselves from non- Han communities...

... as the marker of China s socialism. Yet many governments in capitalist countries have regulated the market for economic development and growth, often rendering nominal the invisible hand of the market. The Maoist period coincides with the golden age of capitalism (1945 73) when capi- talist countries...

... to represent by making it the Chinese source of their Latinization. In admitting that “Kong Fuzi” was a distance marker, it is interesting that the only “native” evidence of “Kong Fuzi” preceding Jesuit entrance into China...

... mother and father, respectively. 50 Another possibility is that these oversize figures act much the same way as the giant machines in Huang’s film Heipao sheian, as alienating or defamiliarizing “markers...

... the early twentieth century, was a necessary if not always named con- stituent of the queue of markers by which Chinese identity was constituted in European discourses. It was also a condensation of all such markers: “The most outward...

... body gestures (fig. 4). Also, the use of stage lighting further foregrounds human protagonists and pushes animals, if any, into darkness and invisibility. The degree to which animals are invisible or absent is a marker of how...

... .” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36 , no. 10 : 1619 – 46 . Krause Monika . 2013 . “ The Ruralization of the World .” Public Culture 25 , no. 2 : 233 – 48 . Lan Pei-Chia . 2008 . “ Migrant Women's Bodies as Boundary Markers: Reproductive Crisis and Sexual Control...

...-1997 freedom and democracy? Is concern for freedom and democracy adequate as a marker for cultural critics’ political correctness? The answer is not clear. Perhaps, if in the jittery transitional period they could contribute enough by simply...