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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Asian cinema"”.
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Homelands and the representation of cultural and political identity in selected South-Asian texts, 1857 to the present
… identity in a selection of literary and cinematic texts (in English and in regional South-Asian languages in translation), all of which situate South-Asian cultural and political subjectivity in relation to specific narrative constructions of space. I suggest that through these successive …
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Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd : Contemporary urban conditions with special reference to thai homosexuality
Major Asian cities like Hong Kong, Taipei and Bangkok have been constantly on the verge of rapid transformation, whether politically, socially, and particularly sexually, due to the process of capitalisation, modernisation, and globalisation over the last decade. In response to the impact of the …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA MAJOR PROFESSOR: Deborah Tudor, Ph.D. The recent tendency of returning to history in Korean cinema corresponds with the conjuncture of democratization and globalization from 1992, which is an antithesis of the former conjuncture: …
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Family Pictures: Representations of the Family in Contemporary Korean Cinema
… has always been a central narrative theme in cinema. Korean cinema has been no exception, where the family has proved to be a popular subject since its earliest days. Yet Western scholarship on Korean cinema has given little attention to this dominant theme, preferring to concentrate on the …