... that Matsumoto didn't even know how to tell a story or how to edit a film. Audiences today, however, are quick to accept the playful interventions in narrative form. This interview introduces this filmmaker/scholar who, in many respects, was far ahead of his time, to the English-speaking world. Copyright 2014...

... America, this article underlines the two scholarly interventions of the special issue in the study of world making: (1) it refashions the notion of comparison to move away from the project of “knowing”—habitually constituted through a top-down gaze aimed at assessment and measuring, which consequently...

... for recognition also orient them toward future potentialities, posing the challenge of how to make decisions in the present without knowing for certain what might be legally possible in the future. The article concludes that lesbian co-mothers’ family strategies are productive as much as they are reactive...

... these theoretical frameworks presume to know what economic practices the CCP should have engaged in and fault the Party for not conforming to their standards of judgment. This article finds this normative approach to analyzing Maoist development to be wanting for four reasons. In its drive to depict China as acting...

... 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...

... of the putative rights of the unborn, whether sexed or disabled, as the case may be, I argue that we need multiple modes of knowing how decisions are structured in different contexts. Only then can we acknowledge the feminist work that lies ahead in negotiating with women's diverse “choices”—as victims, criminals...

... York City by award-winning Hong Kong directors. Linda Hoaglund: I’d just like to start out the conversation by thanking you for making a very special film. Christine Choy: You know, it’s being shown a lot. LH...

... profiling and undercover incarceration. Feminism is show- ing its problems too. Why are members of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan suddenly taken to be prophets? We don’t know much about their values. They are a good group...

... right away, but oth- ers need more time. Of course once they know my films, they would know not to expect to see action or a story in my films. They would know that there would be Lee Kang-sheng, or that there would be no music or very...

... is part of an extended conversation between Shigeki Takeo and Ruri Ito, with participation from Tani E. Barlow, that began in June 2002 in Tokyo and expanded through e-mail. Ruri Ito: Shigeki Takeo, I know that you have been working with different...

... a very vague memory that I have; I don’t know exactly. It was the early ’60s. So around that time there was a very small circle in Tokyo for the avant-­garde: filmmakers, mostly painters though, and neo-­Dada, and happenings, and that kind...

... for you. What sort of secret is hid- ing inside your body? I want to know you, taste you, enter you. . . .” A’Su’s deep murmuring voice filtered into my ears; I was overcome with dizziness. She began undoing my buttons one by one, took my...

... thought you wanted to know what happened to me when I went there.” Even when I asked her directly to reflect on her own childhood this woman turned back automatically to that moment. “I didn’t know any Japanese. I...

... and then we’ll go from there, and that question is: why do we need to think about ”Asia” as a problematic today? I have been asking myself this question now for some time, because I know that something has to be counterposed to the main outposts...

... (H-PRC 2016 ). Knowing what Mao and Maoists actually thought, as well as what they tried to do, is all the more important when today's dominant political and economic systems rely, for their very existence, on the falsification of the ideologies, Marxian and otherwise, that attempt to contest them...

... not know why she cries out. Nor can she control it. I feel depressed when I hear people gossiping about my screaming. I have no idea what it is. When I am awake, it disappears and I sleep again. But I have a dream that is the same every night...

... re forced to do things that are not from our own culture. It s like being in a [Native American] boarding school, you know. Like, you re forced to be like the white man. You go to classes that talk about cultures that are not your own. Like, you learn about everybody else, and nothing about your own...

..., the clan cavorts in the blue smoke of Ching Ming, grave-sweeping day. Leaving their line of sight, we bounce to the asphalt below and break through. Knowing...

... we come to know that the blood we taste and drink is our own and that of those we love? Hans Kung states that in our striving for peace, we should begin with religion. “Peace among the religions” he says, “is the prerequisite for peace...

...- tation. When I spoke with you at Harvard University earlier this year, you urged me to write an essay. Since then I have been thinking it over. As you know, in recent years I have published many articles in women’s studies...