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positions (2006) 14 (1): 219–242.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Shujen Wang; Chris Fujiwara Duke University Press 2006 “My Films Reflect My Living Situation”:
An Interview with Tsai Ming-liang on Film Spaces, Audiences, and Distribution
Shujen Wang and Chris Fujiwara
On October 7, 2003, Tsai Ming-liang screened his filmWhat Time...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 417–423.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Cui Zi'en This conference speech given by a famous queer Chinese filmmaker provocatively proposes that the vibrant culture of underground queer film festivals in China is the true Communist International. Chinese viewers of queer films gain insight into global trends, while these festivals also...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... art practices has been the exploration in 1990s independent film of the suppressed nonelite subjectivities in public housing. Some filmmakers took public housing to be a space separate from the commercial downtown, and they suggested that this space represents an ambivalent site of modernity in its...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1067–1093.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of the modern girl character. The title Chijin no ai references the Japanese title of the US film A Fool There Was (1915), starring Theda Bara as the prototypical vamp. In a US context, the vamp character embodies not only the threat of the sexual woman but also anxieties surrounding racial mixing. In importing...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 371–402.
Published: 01 May 2014
...James Reichert “ Oyama and Anxieties about the Feminization of Japanese Film” offers an alternative perspective on the gender politics behind the switch from oyama , or male actors specializing in female roles, to actresses in early Japanese film. To date, most treatments of this issue have...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 435–479.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Daisy Yan Du Conventional studies of the Chinese Cultural Revolution usually come from a human-centered perspective that focuses on politics, revolution, and class struggle dramatized in well-established artistic forms such as literature, live-action film, theater, and painting. This kind...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 51–99.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Samhita Sunya By charting a genealogy of prem nagar in this article, from its literary antecedents through its cinematic iterations, the author shows that the referent for prem nagar in film songs is derived from a generalized experience of transit to and within the modern-industrial city...
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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...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Ratheesh Radhakrishnan This article, organized around three films— Stop Violence (dir. A. K. Sajan, 2002), Big B (dir. Amal Neerad, 2007), and Annayum Rassolum (dir. Rajeev Ravi, 2013)—attempts to account for a moment in the history of Malayalam cinema when an attempt to spatially imagine, through...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 709–744.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Geoffrey M. White Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s)
Geoffrey M. White
For mainstream America, World War 11 remains largely the “good war.” Hut
events such as compensation for interned...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 731–762.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Purnima Mankekar Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism,
and Nationalism in Hindi Film
Purnima Mankekar
In this essay I examine Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge [The lover wins the
bride...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 287–329.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Bliss Cua Lim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Spectral Times: The Ghost Film As Historical Allegory
Bliss Cua Lim
Ghosts call our calendars into question. The temporality of haunting,
through which events and people return from the limits of time...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 347–364.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Reuben Ramas Cañete The understanding of male sexual labor commodification in Philippine realist film has often been linked exclusively to economic and political determinations associated with authoritarianism and migrant labor from the 1980s to the 1990s. Little discussion has been focused...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 499–524.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Alvin Yapan The article problematizes the trend in the sex films Kesong puti ( White Cheese , 1997), Talong ( Eggplant , 1999), Kangkong ( Water Spinach , 2000), and Itlog ( Egg , 2002) to derive their titles from agricultural produce and contextualize their narratives within the agricultural...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 450–482.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Diane Wei Lewis In the early 1920s, Japanese filmmakers increasingly adopted American-style production practices and strategies of representation. Resisting this trend, the Nikkatsu film company’s Mukōjima studio advocated multiple approaches to filmmaking, challenging the rhetoric of “purity...
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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 (2023) 31 (4): 741–767.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Peter J. Bloom Abstract British colonial film and radio broadcasting initiatives are described as a foundational context for shaping the Malayan Emergency (1948–60). The development and deployment of counterinsurgency techniques become a means by which to wage war against what came to be identified...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 769–801.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Drawing from written, oral, and visual sources, including propaganda films produced by the government, this article retraces the events of that era and attempts to raise questions about the roles of the state and civic society in the “othering” of a marginalized group during wartime. References...
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 539–564.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Tonglin Lu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Fantasy and Ideology in a Chinese Film:
A Žižekian Reading of the Cultural Revolution
Tonglin Lu
The history of the Cultural Revolution, a traumatic event in the collective
life of the Chinese people...
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in The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1 Death of the cameraman in The Man Who Left His Will on Film (dir. Ōshima Nagisa, 1970).
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