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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood...
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Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed discipli...
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood’s golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much lik...
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Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20 contains essays on Hitchcock and C. A. Lejeune; Easy Virtue in context; the West coast setting of and cultural anxiety ...
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Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film fes...
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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese American...
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Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world--"an essential work in anime scholar...
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Otaku Food!: Japanese Soul Food Inspired by Anime and Pop Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Experience the World of Japanese Pop Culture Through a Whole New Medium--Japanese Food!#1 New Release in Animated Humor & EntertainmentWith dis...
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Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movi...
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The Last Emperor Revisited
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A behind-the-scenes look into the filming of The Last Emperor through the photographs of Basil Pao. The Last Emperor Revisited is a true behind-the...
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Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas Volume 4
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...
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Anime Through the Looking Glass: Treasures of Japanese Animation
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than 150 full-color frames. ANIME GOES ...
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Korean Film and History
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made--a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments o...
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Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Tomoyuki Sasaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Japan's Postwar Military and C...
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Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual a...
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Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual cu...
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Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Following the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film pr...
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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths,...
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Grave of the Fireflies
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and ba...
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What Is Japanese Cinema?: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anim...
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A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction SelectionLibrary Journal Top Ten Book of the Year!The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il’s kidnapping ...
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Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleChinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. O...
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