Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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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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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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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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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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A History of Japanese Theatre
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a...
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The Apology
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /I exist now. Don't tell me that I didn't existbefore.How should a nation apologise for the crimes of its past?Seoul, 1991. She kept her silence for...
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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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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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Niranjana
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /After Independence a good number of regional works have been well recognized globally for their prominence in a wider variety of themes. Subsequen...
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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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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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Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China: TV Drama as Popular Media
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understan...
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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies: Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Kristen Rudisill is Professor of Popular Culture and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.Product DetailsISBN-13...
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Race and the Animated Bodyscape: Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Race does not exist in animation--it must instead be constructed and ascribed. Yet, over the past few years, there has been growing discourse on th...
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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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Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content)
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of...
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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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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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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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Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas whic...
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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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Hidetaka Tenjin's Artistry of Macross: Macross Frontier Films, Macross Delta & Archives
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka...
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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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Lilly: The First Latina Rockette
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"When I stepped to the center mark and that spotlight hit me, I thought, Aqui estoy mami, aqui estoy!""When I stepped to the center mark and that s...
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