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  • Aleksei Balabanov: 'Brother'

    by Ira Osterberg, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.Ira Österberg's KinoSputnik on Aleksei Balabanov's cult film Brother (1997) examines the production history, context and reception of the film, and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Andrei Tarkovsky: 'Ivan's Childhood'

    by Robert Efird, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing. This KinoSputnik on Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature Ivan's Childhood examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Fedor Bondarchuk: 'Stalingrad'

    by Stephen Norris, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.This KinoSputnik about Fedor Bondarchuk's megahit Stalingrad (2013) examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema

    Edited by Professor Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova ...
    This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage, from the silent cinemas dating back to World War I through to the varied responses to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. It includes entries on actors and actresses, film ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova ...
    Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated ... Read more

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  • Illusive Utopia

    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"One of this book's strengths is how ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

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    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

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  • East Asian Cinema

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    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

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  • The Chinese Typewriter

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    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Romanian Cinema

    The History of an Unexpected Miracle

    by Dominique Nasta ...
    Over the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), and 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006). However, the hundred or so years of Romanian cinema leading to these accomplishments have been largely overlooked. This book is the first to provide in-depth analyses ... Read more

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  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

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  • John Woo's A Better Tomorrow

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. ... Read more

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