LEADER 03494oam 2200589 450 001 9910821239803321 005 20170523091620.0 010 $a988-220-673-5 010 $a1-283-01692-3 010 $a9786613016928 010 $a988-220-605-0 035 $a(OCoLC)710113067 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL4QTV 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000031122 100 $a20110125d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCinema at the city's edge $efilm and urban networks in East Asia /$fedited by Yomi Braester and James Tweedie 210 1$aHong Kong :$cHong Kong University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aTransAsia: screen cultures 300 $a"This volume is the outcome of a conference held at the University of Washington in April 2006"--Acknowledgements. 311 $a962-209-983-1 311 $a962-209-984-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The city's edge / James Tweedie and Yomi Braester -- Interlude 1: Arriving in the city; touring the city; watching the city / Yomi Braester -- Affective spaces in Hong Kong / Chinese cinema / Ackbar Abbas -- Ghost towns / Dudley Andrew -- Interlude 2: Workspace / James Tweedie -- Taipei as Shinijuku's other / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- City of youth, ocean of death: Taiyo?zooku on the edge of an island / Yiman Wang -- Interlude 3: Neon / James Tweedie -- Transfiguring the postsocialist city: experimental image-making in contemporary China / Zhang Zhen -- Noir looks and flash of transgression: trauma and the city's edge(s) in A bittersweet life / Susie Jie Young Kim -- Technology and (Chinese) ethnicity / Darrell William Davis -- Interlude 4: In the name of the city / Yomi Braester -- Imaging the globalized city: Rem Koolhaas, U-theque, and the Pearl River Delta / Chris Berry -- At the center of the outside: Japanese cinema nowhere / Akira Mizuta Lippit. 330 $aCinema has been a primary mechanism for entertaining migrants to the modern city, recording and displaying a historically new experience to urban populations themselves, while also disseminating the city's promise around the world. But recent city films betray an awareness that the experience of urban life has changed with the dynamic energies and burdens of globalization, with the era of digital video now upon us, and with the emergence of almost limitless megacities throughout East Asia. Contemporary films from the region help define the urban experience in these new environments. These essa 410 0$aTransAsia: screen cultures. 606 $aMotion pictures$zEast Asia$vCongresses 606 $aDigital cinematography$zEast Asia$vCongresses 606 $aCities and towns$zEast Asia$xGrowth$vCongresses 606 $aUrbanization$zEast Asia$vCongresses 606 $aCities and towns in motion pictures$vCongresses 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aDigital cinematography 615 0$aCities and towns$xGrowth 615 0$aUrbanization 615 0$aCities and towns in motion pictures 676 $a791.43095 676 $a808.823 702 $aBraester$b Yomi 702 $aTweedie$b James 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821239803321 996 $aCinema at the city's edge$93969934 997 $aUNINA