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  • Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

    Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

    Edited by David C. L. Lim, Hiroyuki Yamamoto ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Screening China's Soft Power

    Edited by Paola Voci, Luo Hui ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Promoting China's cultural soft power by disseminating modern Chinese values is one of the policies of President Xi Jinping. Although, it is usually understood as a top-down initiative, implemented willingly or unwillingly by writers, filmmakers, artists, and so on, and often manifesting itself in clumsy and awkward ways, for example, the concept of "the Chinese dream," intended to rival and ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Over recent decades South Korea’s vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media have to be consumed underground and unofficially in North Korea, they are widely watched and listened to. The book examines the ways in which this ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China

    The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945

    by David S. G. Goodman ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This history provides the first book-length study and the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan, which was instrumental in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. David Goodman explores revolution as process, arguing that the Chinese Communist Party was successful because of its ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Documentary Cinema of Haneda Sumiko

    Japan in Transition through Gender, Arts, Nature and Society

    Edited by Marcos Centeno-Martin, Irene González-López, Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This is the first academic book to provide a comprehensive survey of the work of Haneda Sumiko (1926–), the first woman to regularly direct documentaries in postwar Japan, by examining her major documentaries among the extensive filmography she developed over 60 years.Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines—including film studies, gender studies, art history, eco-criticism and aging ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Change in Singapore

    Reforming the Elected Presidency

    Edited by Swati Jhaveri, Jaclyn Neo ...
    Series series Routledge Law in Asia
    Once a ceremonial position modelled after the constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom, the office of the President of Singapore was transformed from an appointed to an elected one in 1991. As the head of state, but not the head of government, the elected President was to have additional discretionary powers involving the spending of financial reserves, appointment of high-ranking public ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Asia Pacific Education

    Leadership, Governance and Administration

    Edited by Vanesser Fernandes, Phillip Wing Keung Chan ...
    Series series Leadership, Schools, and Change
    The Asia-Pacific region has rich and unique traditions, cultural diversity and common as well as unique challenges, including obstacles of language and geographical separation. As home to over 60 per cent of the world's population, this region has a diverse range of educational issues, which have not as yet been fully explored. This ground-breaking volume considers current perspectives on ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

    by Tom Mes ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Media in Asia

    Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • China's Avant-Garde, 1978–2018

    Edited by Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book examines how China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular culture, creatively appropriating artistic and literary languages from global cultures to reflect on reform-era China’s transformation and the Maoist heritage. It explores the vortex of cultural change from the launch of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978 to Xi Jinping ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on Journalism in Nepal

    Nepalese News Media in the Twenty–First Century

    Edited by Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, Shyam Sharma ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    With more than 1000 newspapers, 1100 local radios, 200 television channels, 3000 online news portals, and over 80 colleges providing media education and training, news media, and media education are vibrant fields in Nepal. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Nepal’s news media, including empirical studies, critical reviews, and theoretical and philosophical analyses focusing on ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD