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positions (2001) 9 (2): 331–367.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Jonathan L. Beller 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Third Cinema in a Global Frame: Curacha, Yahoo!, and Manila by Night Jonathan L. Beller “Could be the Fila-peeensThat’s definitely the Fila-peeensMax California offering expert commentary...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 369–399.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Kyung Hyun Kim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Male Crisis in New Korean Cinema: Reading the Early Films of Park Kwang-su Kyung Hyun Kim Park Kwang-su’s film Chilsu and Mansu [Ch’il-su wa Man-su] (1988) depicts the lives oftwo working-class...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 401–422.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Gina Marchetti 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Cinema Frames, Videoscapes, and Cyberspace: Exploring Shu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill Gina Marchetti In his essay “The Ecstasy of Communication,” Jean Baudrillard states that we are in an era...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 423–447.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Helen Hok-sze Leung 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Queerscapes in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema Helen Hok-sze Leung A Queer Undercurrent What use is there for me to go on treasuring you? Even if I hold you tight this time...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 467–493.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Susan J. Napier 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Confronting Master Narratives: History As Vision in Miyazaki Hayao’s Cinema of De-assurance Susan J. Napier There is somethingtimeless about the concept of global culture. Widely diffused...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 281–305.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in Chinese, Hong Kong, and Philippine cinema are explored here, each demonstrating differing inflections in relation to digitization, finance capital, gender performativity, and generic style. Haptic mapping, the rapidly oscillating gender of the “female” martial artist, the transcendent “male” virtuosic...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 365–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
...: Negotiating Chineseness in Philippine Cinema at a Time of Transnationalism Richard T. Chu Introduction “Sa angkan namin, ang mga babae ang matatapang.” (In our clan, the women are the strong ones.) So goes the opening line narrated...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 May 2019
... socialist to globally commodified femininity, this essay unravels it as a complex cultural field of gender recoding, negotiation, and experimentation. Critiquing the “city” as an expanding network of consumer desires, Li’s urban cinema illustrates the dystopic imaginary of post-socialist home spaces...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Takushi Odagiri This article examines Kawase’s films, with a focus on her early documentaries in autobiographical forms (in the 1990s and early 2000s). Far from being a simple mimesis of her everyday reality, Kawase’s cinema-verité–like autobiographies have distinct features. In particular...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 597–621.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Rea Amit Imamura Taihei (1911–86) is considered by many to be the first film theorist in Japan, and he is known chiefly for his two grand theories on documentary film and animation. Yet, at the same time, Imamura also developed a third, no less ambitious theory, that of “Cinema and Japanese Art...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 277–309.
Published: 01 May 2020
... cinema of the 1960s (especially Frederick Wiseman) as well as Bronisław Malinowski’s participant observation, Sōda’s observational style not only emphasizes the self-affective nature of documentary eyes but also rejects the preconceived reality of its object. Documentary is not conceived “in the head...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 679–703.
Published: 01 November 2022
... know little about how media forms other than the written word contributed to this conversation. To address these gaps in our understanding, this article investigates how the practice of cinema, through the paradigmatic example of Ōshima Nagisa's film Kōshikei 絞死刑 ( Death by Hanging ) (1968), intervened...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
... the activist documentary's commitment to politics and history, as they renew the viewer's sensory and affective awareness of the place and the landscape and thereby render them ruins. Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Korean documentary cinema audiovisual turn time-image place landscape...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 839–862.
Published: 01 November 2023
... memories are negotiated in the post–Cold War Taiwanese cinema to reformulate the contentious idea of “nation” and “nationalism” in Taiwan. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Wei Te‐sheng Taiwan post–New Cinema colonial memory Taiwan New Cinema and post...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
... the distant location of Paris, which is not coincidentally regarded as the origin point of the new Korean woman. Generally, in Korean cinema, Paris has been featured both as a site of authenticity and formal experimentation in art and also as the scene of sexual awakening for women. The films discussed...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Steve Choe Duke University Press 2007 Kim Ki-duk’s Cinema of Cruelty: Ethics and Spectatorship in the Global Economy Steve Choe The Ethical Question I first saw Kim Ki-duk’s sixth feature film, Address Unknown (Suchwiin bulmyeong; 2001...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 435–454.
Published: 01 May 2009
... realist styles into an aesthetics of “disillusioned cinema”: a postmodern urban genre that simultaneously derides personal fantasies of sexual love and political fantasies of nation building. Both films use the formulas of romance to highlight the illusions and alienations of contemporary love...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 373–383.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Norman A. Spencer “Ten Years of Queer Cinema in China” is a photo memoir with twenty photographs and commentary that documents two important cultural events rarely mentioned in US discussions of Chinese underground cinema. They are the First Chinese Gay and Lesbian Film Festival held at Beijing...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Manishita Dass The city of Bombay emerged as an emblematic space of India's postcolonial modernity in Hindi cinema during the 1950s, India's first decade of independence. This article focuses on the mise-en-scène of musical sequences—from popular Hindi films such as C.I.D. (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 255–280.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Dai Jinhua Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women‘s Film Dai Jinhua Dai Jinhua is one of the outstanding younger scholars of the new generation of Chinese...