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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wimal Dissanayake |
ISBN: | 0521414652 9780521414654 052161208X 9780521612081 |
OCLC Number: | 26160021 |
Description: | ix, 281 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Melodrama/subjectivity/ideology : Western melodrama theories and their relevance to recent Chinese cinema / E. Ann Kaplan -- Symbolic representation and symbolic violence : Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980s / Ma Ning -- The goddess : reflections on melodrama East and West / William Rothman -- Melodrama as historical understanding : the making and unmaking of communist history / Yuejin Wang -- Melodrama, postmodernism, and Japanese cinema / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Inscribing the subject : the melodramatization of gender in An actor's revenge / Scott Nygren -- Insides and outsides : cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama / Catherine Russell -- Psyches, ideologies, and melodrama : the United States and Japan / Maureen Turim. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in film. |
Responsibility: | edited by Wimal Dissanayake. |
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"This book should be required reading for any student or scholar in film or cultural studies." Journal of Communication "...the book is a welcome addition to the still scarce library on Asian cinema in English and may provide a source of inspiration for those interested in either melodrama or Asian Cinema." Yang Ye, Journal of Developing Societies "The essays in Wimal Dissanayake's volume illustrate the importance of melodrama to Chinese film studies. Informed by multiple theoretical models, they offer many interesting...readings of Chinese films." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars Read more...

