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  • Audiobook

    TIME TO CHANGE YOURSELF

    16 Habits That Will Redesign Your Life in Just 8 Minutes a Day

    by Brian Shim ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Brian - Deep, Resonant and Com E, Digital Voice Bella - Professional, Bright, E ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if just 8 minutes a day could change your life?Most people believe that transformation requires massive effort, dramatic decisions, or perfect timing.But the truth is much simpler—and more powerful.Real change begins with small, consistent habits.This book is not about theory.It is a collection of real ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Changing Face of Korean Cinema

    1960 to 2015

    by Brian Yecies, Aegyung Shim ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    The rapid development of Korean cinema during the decades of the 1960s and 2000s reveals a dynamic cinematic history which runs parallel to the nation’s political, social, economic and cultural transformation during these formative periods.This book examines the ways in which South Korean cinema has undergone a transformation from an antiquated local industry in the 1960s into a thriving ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948

    The Untold History of the Film Industry

    by Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) and US Army Military (1945-1948) periods within the larger context of cinemas in occupied territories. It differs from previous studies by drawing links between the arrival in Korea of modern technology and ideas, and the cultural, political and social ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • South Korea's Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution

    by Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies
    This book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons – also known as webcomics – and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them. It offers an engaging discussion of webtoons themselves, and what makes this new media form so compelling and attractive to millions upon millions of ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

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  • Red Carpet

    Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

    by Erich Schwartzel ...
    **"This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting." — The New York Times Book Review“In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the extent of our cultural thrall to China. His depiction of the craven characters, American and Chinese, who have enabled this situation represents a significant feat of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Ayn Rand Universe: The Unofficial Guide to Her Life, Books, and Philosophy

    by James Fritz ...
    Ayn Rand is one of the most polarizing authors of the 20th century. Best known for novels “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged,” which used characters intent on exercising their individualism over conformity, Rand became a pop philosopher in the 1950s. Her work upholds the virtues of a philosophy that she and Nathaniel Branden called Objectivism.This book examines both her life and her work; it ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • New Korean Cinema

    Breaking the Waves

    by Darcy Paquet ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    New Korean Cinema charts the dramatic transformation of South Korea's film industry from the democratization movement of the late 1980s to the 2000s new generation of directors. The author considers such issues as government censorship, the market's embrace of Hollywood films, and the social changes which led to the diversification and surprising commercial strength of contemporary Korean films. ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • East Asian Cinema

    by David Carter ...
    Film directors from East Asia frequently win top prizes at international film festivals, but few books have been published about them. The films of these countries reflect periods of great political turmoil, rapid modernization in the 20th century, and the conflicts between modern lifestyles and traditional values. Covering films and filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and North and ... Read more

    $19.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Art, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding mainland Chinese cinema. This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Taiwan Film Directors

    A Treasure Island

    by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Mirko Ilic

    Fist to Face

    by Dejan Krsic ...
    Mirko Ilic has a reputation as a rebel, but his iconoclasm is matched with tremendous gifts as an illustrator, a designer, and an educator. Ilic is a visionary and a leading voice of visual culture across disciplines and continents.This visual biography of one of the most prolific and distinguished designers of the last half century traces Ilic's formative years as a precocious youth in Yugoslavia ... Read more

    $47.00 CAD

  • Youth Culture in China

    From Red Guards to Netizens

    by Paul Clark ...
    The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD