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Title Cinema at the city's edge : film and urban networks in East Asia / edited by Yomi Braester and James Tweedie.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series TransAsia: screen cultures
TransAsia--screen cultures.
Note "This volume is the outcome of a conference held at the University of Washington in April 2006"--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Contents Introduction: 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: Taiyōzooku 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-thèque, and the Pearl River Delta / Chris Berry -- At the center of the outside: Japanese cinema nowhere / Akira Mizuta Lippit.
Summary These essays trace common concerns among East Asian cinemas of Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the PRC, and Taiwan, and go beyond the now familiar notion that the Asian metropolises are successful iterations of local identity within a global network.
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Subject Motion pictures -- East Asia -- Congresses.
Motion pictures.
East Asia.
Digital cinematography -- East Asia -- Congresses.
Digital cinematography.
Cities and towns -- East Asia -- Growth -- Congresses.
Cities and towns.
Growth.
Urbanization -- East Asia -- Congresses.
Urbanization.
Cities and towns in motion pictures -- Congresses.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Braester, Yomi.
Tweedie, James.
Added Title Film and urban networks in East Asia
Other Form: Print version: Cinema at the city's edge. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010 9789622099845 (OCoLC)657965577
ISBN 9789882206052 (electronic book)
9882206050 (electronic book)
9789622099845
962209984X
9789622099838
9622099831