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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795610103321

Autore

James David E. <1945->

Titolo

Power Misses II : Cinema, Asian and Modern / / David E. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[2020], : John Libbey Publishing Ltd

New Barnet, Herts

ISBN

0-86196-977-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

791.43095

Soggetti

Asian Americans in motion pictures

Motion pictures - California - Los Angeles - History

Motion picture industry - East Asia

Motion pictures - East Asia - History

Electronic books.

California Los Angeles

East Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- POWER MISSES II CINEMA,ASIANANDMODERN -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Im Kwon-taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism -- Chapter 2 Im Kwon-taek's Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema: Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji -- Chapter 3 The Name of a Desire: Recollections of Socialist Realism in East Asian Art Cinema -- Chapter 4 Tradition and the Movies: The Working-Class Asian American Avant-Garde in Los Angeles -- Chapter 5 The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in Los Angeles -- Chapter 6 Toward a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics/The City as Means of Production: Representations of Los Angeles in Killer of Sheep and Water and Power -- Chapter 7 Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird -- Chapter 8 L.A.'s Hipster Cinema -- Chapter 9 Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption: Ken Jacobs' The Sky Socialist -- Chapter 10 "Apotheosis Into Tragedy": Catoptrics of Self in Andy Warhol's Lupe -- Chapter 11 Letter to Paul Arthur (Letter With Endnotes) -- Chapter 12 Agricultural Revelation:



Land, Labor, and Voice in Three Films About Laxton -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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