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positions (2017) 25 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 February 2017
... the treatment of space in Indian cinema in relation to the location of film production itself. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 space location city Indian cinema denominational space References Aamir . 2008 . Dir. Gupta Rajkumar . Bombay : UTV Spotboy Motion Pictures...
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in Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 6 Suzuko placed in a new location in One-Million-Yen Girl , 2008.
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in Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 3 Mia rides a motor scooter to an unknown location in the ending scene.
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 671–693.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of personal histories, to locate and reinvent a “past” that was still very much the present. While recent studies of visual culture in postsocialist or post-Holocaust societies focus on “postmemory,” this article examines the mechanisms of materializing and restructuring personal memory that were in place...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 73–90.
Published: 01 February 1994
.... (Dis)Orienting the Body: Locating Symbolic Resistance among Filipino Gay Men
Martin F. Manalansan IV
And . . . I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a
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The gaze...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 735–763.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Andrea Louie 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 When You Are Related to the “Other”: (Re)locating the Chinese Homeland
in Asian American Politics through Cultural Tourism
Andrea Louie
In 1972 eleven college-educated, second- through fourth-generation Chi...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
...—ranging from subtle to overt—against works of art about the female body, in which aesthetic judgments take on a moral character. The article begins with a discussion of Kim Soyoung's new woman: her first song (2004), which locates the possibilities for subject formation that the figure of the new Korean...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 127–157.
Published: 01 February 2009
... located this essence of technology within the interstices of modern capitalist life—in mass-mediated subjectivity, in the sensations and forms of contemporary cinema, and in the “bodily technologies” of sports, for example. By examining Nakai's thoughts on the essence of technology, I wish to analyze...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Wanning Sun Work on migration and gendered mobility has shown us that places are constituted not only by their location and physical features, but also by the specific, often regulated forms of bodies that inhabit them. In this essay, I want to call into question the process by which the connection...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 281–289.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that the volume is not merely a scholarly reflection on the changing meanings of transnational Chinese queer politics, but the result of an effort to build such transnational connections. The scholars, activists, and artists in the volume come from a wide range of locations and backgrounds. Some are based...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of this “return” of themes that had been repressed for political reasons since the end of the war. Trần Anh Hùng was born in Vietnam in 1962. He and his family left as refugees at the end of the war in 1975. Cyclo , filmed on location in the first large-scale foreign production in Vietnam, marked his return...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1041–1066.
Published: 01 November 2012
... political space of Singapore. Focusing on postcolonial discomfort as the central problem, I locate the articulation of Asian values in the psychic-cultural consequences of colonial hybridity. I argue that the discomfort stemmed from the Anglicized Chinese elite's realization that British colonial discourse...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 607–636.
Published: 01 August 2013
... for the hysteric, including the pleasure of meaning or referentiality. Second, I link Pak's work with its historical context by locating “hysteria” as one possible outcome of the paradoxical demands of discriminatory colonial discourse, which I characterize using Bateson's concept of the double bind. Here I read...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of the industry documented by the analysis include the recruitment of women from other provinces in the study location to marry a foreigner and matchmaking services for single men facing difficulties finding a spouse, given the current local demographic context. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in four...
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Between Ooru , Area, and Pettai : The Terms of the Local in Tamil Cinema of the Twenty-First Century
positions (2017) 25 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Nitya Vasudevan This article focuses on films that star the young Tamil cinema actor Dhanush and that are set in Madurai and surrounding nonmetropolitan locations in the state of Tamil Nadu. Through these films, the article examines the construct of the area or the pettai as a production...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
... histories are spatially and temporally arranged. The article attempts to think of the city in Malayalam cinema as a moment of refiguration of its history and practices. The city as location in Malayalam cinema emerges as a negotiation with a specific form of realism anchored in rural anthropology put...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 145–158.
Published: 01 February 2019
... to grasp the emergence of the world as a completely material dimension in which increasingly the most local of our experiences are themselves located. As a large part of the literature on globalization is coming to recognize, it is a world that is at the same time increasingly unified and increasingly...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and Southeast Asian minorities who are presumed by official multiracialist and Asian values rhetoric to locate their “uncontaminated” cultural heritage in these other countries. As two simultaneously gendered and racialized figures embodying these three relations, the female Indonesian domestic worker...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 207–236.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Manwen’s self-portraiture locates a troubled self against familial relations and social-cultural confinement and searches for self-expression through mirror reflection and spatial articulation. Issues specific to the discussion include spatial anxiety, where the self reconciles familial place and social...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 756–788.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a socialist country located outside the orbit of global capitalism by focusing on the fundamental predicaments that China, as a developing country, faced in realizing socialism within its territory. These quandaries included a shortage of foreign currencies, a commodity economy, the party-state’s economic...
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