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Erotic Comics in Japan
An Introduction to Eromanga
Häftad, 2025
771 kr
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Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to broad and diverse demographics, including many adults, eroticism continues to unsettle critics and has …
Asian Self-Representation at World's Fairs
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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International expositions or world’s fairs are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural difference. Rather than looking at Asian representation at the hands of colonizing powers, something already much examined, …
Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China
Av Jeroen de Kloet, Yiu Fai Chow m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from made in China to created in China. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and soft power, creativity has become part of the new China Dream. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with …
Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia
Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary
Av Dorothy Lau
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries …
Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia
Histories, Politics and Practices
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It also scrutinizes the …
Feminisms and Contemporary Art in Indonesia
Defining Experiences
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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While Indonesian contemporary art is currently on the rise on the international art scene, there hasn't yet been an in-depth study of the works of Indonesian women artists and the feminist strategies they employ within the art world. This book fills that gap, presenting the first comprehensive …
Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Films
Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship
Av Qi Ai
Häftad, 2026
704 kr
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This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s. It argues that Feng is not simply a …
Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan
Cinema as a Sensory Circuit
Av Ya-Feng Mon
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own terms. Interweaving in-depth interviews with …
Globalization and Modernity in Asia
Performative Moments
Av Chris Hudson, Bart Barendregt
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the …
Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s
A Decade of Splendour
Av Yiu-Wai Chu
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This book deals with the 1980s – the “golden decade” of Hong Kong pop culture – in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city. Bookended by two major historical incidents, the 1980s will probably enter the annals of Hong Kong history as the decade that defined its future …
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia
Av Ran Ma
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia’s vibrant …
Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities and towns in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu are consistently ornamented with huge billboards, murals and myriad posters featuring political leaders …
Museum Processes in China
The Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of the Art Museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency that has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Following a constructive and multi-perspectival approach, it discusses the roles of political and cultural-economic agents, museum …
Performing Fear in Television Production
Practices of an Illiberal Democracy
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths …
Philippine Digital Cultures
Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube
Av Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Social media platforms have been pivotal in redefining the conduct of contemporary society. Amid the proliferation of a range of new and ubiquitous online platforms, YouTube, a video-based platform, remains a key driver in the democratisation of creative, playful, vernacular, intimate, as well as …
Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape
Av Shi-Yan Chao
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both …
Southeast Asia on Screen
From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998)
Av Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
747 kr
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After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories shaped by unique national and domestic conditions. Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to …
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema
Av Zhen Zhang
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The book delineates and conceptualizes their cinematic and trans-media practices within an evolving, …
Video Gaming and Interactive Storytelling in Digital Taiwan and Beyond
History Plays Back
Av Chia-rong Wu
Inbunden, 2027
2542 kr
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This book explores how video games transform history, fantasy, Indigeneity, trauma, and romance into interactive narratives, sparking transnational dialogues across game studies, area studies, and digital humanities. By highlighting the complex ways in which reality and fantasy are continuously …
Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia
Histories, Politics and Practices
Inbunden, 2025
2190 kr
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This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Internet Vulgarities in China
Cultures, Governance and Politics
Av Jian Xu, Dino Ge Zhang
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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Internet Vulgarities in China is the first comprehensive study to critically examine the cultures, governance and politics of internet vulgarities in Chinese society. Comprising twelve chapters, the authors present empirically rich case studies to explore the nature, regulation and evolution of the …
Film Activism in Contemporary Indonesia
Platforms of Participation and Representation
Av Edwin Jurriëns, Jemma Purdey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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This edited volume seeks to evaluate the complex tensions between democratic renewal and regression by focusing on the activist efforts by Indonesian filmmakers to maintain and open spaces for creative experimentation, critical reflection, and social diversity.After the fall of the authoritarian …
Inter-Asia Intermediality
Creative Labor, Co-Production, and Outsourcing
Av Brian Bernards, Elmo Gonzaga
Inbunden, 2027
2468 kr
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This volume represents the first sustained effort to cast the concepts of inter-Asia and intermediality into a mutually informative dialogue, questioning how they demarcate boundaries within area and media studies.Probing beyond conventional definitions, the book examines how inter-Asian …
Feminisms and Contemporary Art in Indonesia
Defining Experiences
Inbunden, 2017
2190 kr
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While Indonesian contemporary art is currently on the rise on the international art scene, there hasn't yet been an in-depth study of the works of Indonesian women artists and the feminist strategies they employ within the art world. This book fills that gap, presenting the first comprehensive …
Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan
Cinema as a Sensory Circuit
Av Ya-Feng Mon
Inbunden, 2016
2190 kr
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This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own terms.
Globalization and Modernity in Asia
Performative Moments
Av Chris Hudson, Bart Barendregt
Inbunden, 2018
1821 kr
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This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics - both spatially grounded and mediatized - and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global.
Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China
Av Jeroen de Kloet, Yiu Fai Chow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2190 kr
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Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and soft power , creativity has become part of the new China Dream. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with the imperative of creativity by aligning it to three interrelated phenomena: boredom, shanzhai, and …
Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as his appropriation into networks of patronage, praise and social mobility via images.
Asian Self-Representation at World's Fairs
Inbunden, 2020
2190 kr
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This book focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world's fairs in the West after the so-called golden age of the exhibition.
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia
Av Ran Ma
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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This book examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia.
