... within global cultures of cinema, thus invoking and molding the contemplative viewer; politically, these films mark the earliest attempts to conceive the region's relation to modernity through the grids of imagining the urban. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 urban space...

... on regionality, globalization, mobility, and gender, in an effort to understand the contemporariness of these films. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 local and global regional cinema Madurai formula masculinity stardom References Aadukalam . Dir. Vetrimaaran . Chennai...

... is that the combination of the female star body's overdeterminedness with malleability makes it a privileged site for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing the nation-oriented cinema and the correlated identity. My major concern is how Cheung's distinctly foreign presence in both films collaborates...

... outside a simplified and taken-­for-­granted logic of distinct “regional” cinemas. One of the aspects of recent scholarship on Indian cin- ema that this issue hopes to sidestep is the emergence of “Bollywood” (which at times anachronistically...

... Global South—are marked as problem zones for the global governance of intellectual property. Within these regions, there is a widening chasm between neoliberal elites and the relationally subaltern masses in their adherence to IPR (intellectual property rights) regimes and their attitude toward piratical...

... 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...

... eccentricities and pushing spectato- rial experiences into morally uncomfortable zones. It is instructive to reflect on what Anurag Kashyap describes as the promise of the “arrival” of “the great Hindi cinema” (and regional cinema in its footsteps...

... in the structure of the film industry, and competing imaginations of the region itself. The three films indicate shifting registers in the representa- tion of the city: if one seeks to deploy the aesthetic lineages of Malayalam cinema to spatialize...

... . “ Transnational Spectres and Regional Spectators: Flexible Citizenship in New Chinese Horror Cinema .” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6 , no. 1 : 41 – 64 . Goh Daniel P. S. 2012 . “ Oriental Purity: Postcolonial Discomfort and Asian Values .” positions: asia critique 20 , no. 4 : 1041 – 66...

... ). Communism in Kerala: A Study in Political Adaptation . New Delhi : Oxford University Press . Radhakrishnan Ratheesh ( 2009 ). The Gulf in the Imagination: Migration, Malayalam Cinema, and Regional Identity . Contributions to Indian Sociology 23 , no. 2 : 217 – 45 . Radharishnan...

... the bounds of these critical categories. Informed by the practices of both Ritwik Ghatak and Robert Bresson, Kaul and Shahani remain rigorously attentive to the concreteness of image/sound relations in cinema and acutely conscious of the perspectival system underlying conventional cinematic representation...

... 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...

..., occupying a specific space in popular stardom. With his increasing presence on global screens, Kaneshiro’s image is transposed from cinema to the Internet, a medium where fans can now actively participate in star construction. This essay focuses on Internet fan forums as a primary venue to investigate...

... its spaces. Just as it is no longer viable to maintain the notion of a heteroge- neous Asia resisting the capitalist advances of the United States and Europe, commercial cinema and filmmaking within the Asia/Pacific region, as more than one author...

...Esther Yao; Roland Tolentino; Kyung Hyun Kim Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Call for Essays Exploring Contemporary Asia Pacific Cinemas: Spatiality, Desire, New Technologies Esther Yao, Roland Tolentino, and Kyung Hyun Kim, guest editors...

... of British colonialism to reveal how ruptures from a sense of continuous time produced this cinematic imagination of a place to write a critical historiography of affective space in cinema. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 ruins affect architecture gender princely states history...

... modernity. Mark Swislocki is assistant professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai (2009...

... away from its geographic protectionism and in part because the frame of ref- erence is literally a particular, Indian minority cinema. And so Radhakrish- nan introduces the historiography of the catachresis of region and linguistic state...

... Zahlten is a professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civiliza- tions at Harvard University. He is the coeditor of Media Theory in Japan (2017, with Marc Steinberg) and the author of The End of Japanese Cinema (2017). Yanshuo Zhang received her PhD in Chinese literature and culture from...

... regional and ethnic diversity. Moreover, whereas Anderson argues that the idea of a nation is in large measure imagined retrospectively, Manchukuo’s cinema, to borrow Noel Carroll and Sally Banes’s words while discussing Eisenstein’s The Old...