Chinese Films In Focus: 25 New Takes edited by Chris Berry [in AsianWeek]
25 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
A wide-ranging collection of 25 essays that share a common focus on films from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even the Chinese/U.S. crossover blockbuster, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon....
A dictionary-like overview of the original Chinese American legendary superstar's career.
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The yakuza genre, or gangster films, have more or less replaced samurai films in both quantity and popularity in Japan. Schilling, a Japan Times film reviewer since 1989, brings together all the...
Capturing her rollicking journey through India’s phenomenal Bollywood industry, journalist Hardy recounts the glitz and glitter of stars, their starlets, directors and various groupies as she searches for elusive pretty-boy, mega heartthrob Hrithik Roshan.
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Title says it all – for the uninformed and the already-know-it-all … a handy one-stop shop with over 1600 animation titles.
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For the newly initiated Korean cinephile, this will help to explain who’s who, what’s what, and which film you should see next – just don’t look too deep. That whole comparison with Hong Kong...
Socio-historic summary of Korean cinema though films of three periods: pre-separation between North and South and the Japanese occupation, North/South division, and the postwar reality of a divided people.
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The concept of “Western modernity” traveling east throughout Asia, as it is reflected in the contemporary cinemas of Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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With the growing presence of Indian film titles, a timely primer on how Bollywood (thankfully) is certainly not Hollywood.
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An essay collection that originated from an Im Kwon-Taek film festival/conference at the University of Southern California in 1996. Amazingly enough, this is the very first English language title on South Korean cinema. More...
Feng’s title is ingeniously layered: “Screening Asian Americans” refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened – how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how...
This time, Feng gets the whole book to himself. And if you read nothing else about film, read this introduction. His questions about identity – who defines it, how it’s defined, can...
Part of the PocketEssentials series out the U.K., Ang Lee is one of the latest available additions to an eclectic mix of film-related titles. While it reads a bit like a glorified student project,...
Also from the PocketEssentials series. A quick guide to the man who single-handedly changed the face of martial arts films, from his San Francisco birth to his child actor days in Hong...
PocketEssentials again, published in the U.K. in 2000 and released here late last year. A compilation of interviews, articles, and reviews about Hong Kong’s “gangster gun operas” [as opposed to...
Another slim volume that offers a concise, informative overview of mainland Chinese cinema, with a focus on the last half-decade. Chinese cinema history can be loosely summarized in six generations, beginning with...
A thoroughly enjoyable combination of memoir entwined with film, social, and political history by a professor from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, which graduated the...
Richie, one of Japan’s most famous ex-patriots, points out in his introduction that some 90% of all Japanese films made before 1945 were destroyed, whether during the 1923...
We’re talking major tome – more than 800 pages devoted to a “joint biography” of two of the most famous names is film history. Because no single biography about either...
The ultimate guidebook to anime, set up just like an encyclopedia (hence the name), with detailed entries in alphabetical order. Quite an impressive, amazing feat.
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