...Gerald Sim Situated astride Malaysian and global film culture, the late director Yasmin Ahmad presents a fresh model of postcolonial poetics. Her films gravitated toward interracial romance melodramas set in globalized social and cultural milieus, where she stages interethnic squabbles between...

...登 composed a vernacular novel Sanbao taijian xiyangji tongsu yanyi 三寶太監西洋記通俗演義 ( Vernacular Romance of Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyages on the Indian Ocean ) (1598). This article examines how the imminent maritime realities reminded the late Ming authors of one cross-border war and two genocides in Java...

... 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...

... . By alluding to Heian serial relationships, she aestheticizes alienation from her partners on her dates. By echoing classical matrices of seasonal words, poetic places, and conventional associations in all stages of romance, her accounts of consumer objects carry their own advertised associations as well...

...Serk-Bae Suh This essay examines the controversial staging of a Japanese-language version of the popular Korean romance Ch'unhyangjŏn ( The Tale of Spring Fragrance ) by the Japanese theatrical company Shinkyô in 1938. By analyzing the arguments of Japanese and Korean intellectuals about the play...

...Nancy Stalker Matthew Barney's 2005 film-cum-performance-piece, Drawing Restraint 9 ( DR9 ), portrays a budding romance between two individuals he terms the “Occidental Guests,” played by Barney and his real-life partner, the singer Björk, aboard a Japanese whaling ship. In the film's climactic...

... genre, the romance novel. More specifically, it is a study of changes in late-twentieth- century cultural understandings of romantic love as inscribed in the fic- tional romance. Transformations in representations of romantic heroes...

... to dramatically embody Christian principles so as to persuade Yen of God’s greatness. The issue of “romance” is distributed differently in Davis’s psyche and in Yen’s. From their first encounter, which occurs as the film opens and before...

... Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bhagat Chetan . 2009 . Two States: The Story of My Marriage . New Delhi : Rupa Books . Bhattacharya Nandini . 2008 . “Romancing Religion: Neoliberal Bollywood's Gendered Visual Repertoire for a Pain-Free...

... impulses of the West. Employed as the central figure in narratives molded through the rhetoric of sexual romance, she serves as both the sign of willing Japanese capitulation to aggressive acts of military paternalism and as a site...

...: the specter shatters the self-evidence of our own world and time. positions 9:2 Fall 2001 300 Ghost Films Haplos and Rouge, two ghost films that thematize romances between ghosts and mortals...

... to other individuals or translated into love of family, community, or nation — entities that either hardly matter to those caught in the tempest of romance or are the very source of their oppression. Their emotional life is thus qualitatively...

... who remain in perpetual transit) emerge as a collective of cinephiles, who are willfully entranced by the repetitious, rapturous songs—the seductive pleasures and utopian dreams—of Hindi popular cinema. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 cinema literature Hindi Urdu city romance...

... International,” imagined as a romance between an Indian princess and a black labor activist by W. E. B. Du Bois in his 1928 novel Dark Princess, is one of the determinate forms of Marxist theorizing in the twentieth century. Even...

... driven by shifts in land ownership, family feuds based on ques- tions of honor or pride, and romances that were doomed to fail. The male protagonists, played by actors like Sivakumar, Vijaykumar, Nizhalgal Ravi, and Satyaraj, did not embody Tamil...

... and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works. Bruno Bosteels is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and the author of the forthcoming Badiou and Politics. Lorenzo Chiesa...

... of the Philippines. It is part of what Rolando Tolentino, following Rina Jimenez-­David, has termed the “vaginal economy” to name the Philippine nation-­state’s means of negotiating globalization. Sappy, melodramatic com- mercial romance films would...

... in Deshadanakkili karayarilla (Migratory Birds Don’t Cry, dir. P. Padma- rajan, 1986) or teacher-­student romance in Chamaram (The Ornate Fan, dir. Bharathan, 1980), or in films that were set in closed spaces like college campuses, mental asylums...

...–1937.” Eileen Chang (1920–1995)was one of the most celebrated authors and cultural critics in modern China. Her numerous literary works include Romances (Chuanqi, 1944)and Written on Water (Liuyan, 1945...

..., associate professor of cinema and photography, Ithaca College, is the author of Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (1993). Susan J. Napier, professor of Asian studies, University...