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“peter c pugsley”

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  • Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema

    Cinematic Boundaries

    by Peter C. Pugsley ...
    This ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that arise over aesthetic styles and the cultural and traditional influences that determine the content and impact of these films. The social and regulatory environments for filmmakers across Asia reflect distinct national and cultural differences. In just the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema

    by Peter C. Pugsley ...
    From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, cinematic texts from the nations of Asia are increasingly capturing audiences beyond their national boundaries. Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema explores the rise of popular Asian cinema and provides an understanding of the ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The Cinematic Influence

    Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan

    by Peter C. Pugsley, Dr. Ben McCann ...
    Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packed with vivid examples and case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and many others. It illustrates the vast array of cinematic connections that mark a long history of mutual influence and reverence ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Beer

    by Thomas Bedell, Alan Eames, Fred Eckhardt, Robert Haiber, Karl F. Lutzen, Alan J. Pugsley, Peter V. K. Reid, Mark Stevens ...
    The Encyclopedia of Beer is a seriously readable celebration of beers and brewing around the world--the ultimate reference source for beer lovers everywhere. With more than 900 entries of everything from "Abbey Beer" to "Zymurgy," and hundreds of illustrations, this book answers all your questions on:- influential brewers and their products- beer styles--both the popular and the obscure- brewing ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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    Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema

    by Andrew Dorman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13 Assassins (2010) is considered through textual and empirical analysis. The author discusses contradictory forms of cultural representation – ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Rising Sun, Divided Land

    Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers

    by Kate Taylor-Jones ...
    Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Chan-wook, and Kim Ki-duk and considers their work as reflections of personal visions and as films ... Read more

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  • Farewell My Concubine

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Helen Hok-Sze Leung ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Helen Hok-Sze Leung: Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008). ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The South Korean Film Renaissance

    Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs

    by Jinhee Choi ...
    Series series Wesleyan Film
    For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • China on Video

    Smaller-Screen Realities

    by Paola Voci ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies- ... Read more

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  • Cinema and Landscape

    Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography

    Edited by Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner ...
    The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film ... Read more

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  • The Asian Cinema Experience

    Styles, Spaces, Theory

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD