Volume 7, No. 1, Spring 1995

From the Editor: Alive and Kicking/John A. Lent/p.2
Rereading Cultural Significance of Taiwan's Cinema in the 1990's/Lee Tain-Dow/p. 3
The Voice of Feminine Madness In Zhang Yimou's Da Hong DengLong GaoGaoGua
(Raise the Red Lantern)/Suzie Young-Sau Fong/p. 12
Hindu Neo-Nationalism and the Spectacle of Masculinity and Violence: The Case of
Angaar/Jyotsna Kapur/p.24
Publications on Asian Cinema/John A. Lent/p.30
Films About Tibet/Cynthia Contreras/p.47
Anime Resources/John A. Lent/p.49
Le Cineme d'Asie en France (et en Europe) en 1994/Regis Bergeron/p. 50
Reviews:
New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics, edited by Nick Browne, Paul G.
Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, and Esther Yau/reviewed by Steve Fore/p. 52
Threads of Life: Hemp and Gender in a Hmong Village, directed by Susan Morgan and
K.A. Culhane-Pera/reviewed by Linda Ehrlich/p.54
Song of the Bicycle, directed by Yang Shu/reviewed by D. E. Perushek/p.55
On Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, by Ella Shohat and Robert
Stam/reviewed by Radha Subramanyam/p.56
Minutes, ACSS, Athens, Ohio, November 5, 1994/p. 58
Efforts To Launch Canadian Branch, ACSS/p. 59
Mira Binford's Diamonds in the Snow Reveals Holocaust Through a Child's Eyes/p.59

Vol. 7, No.2, Winter 1995

Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p. 1

The Japanese Film: A Personal View--1947-1995/Donald Richie/p. 3

"No Place for a White Man": United Artists' Far East Department, 1922-1929/Michael
Walsh/p. 18

The Dream Palaces of Shanghai: American Films in China's Largest Metropolis Prior to

1949/Marie Cambon/p.34

The Shinkokugeki and the Zenshinza: Western Representational Realism and the

Japanese Period Film/S. A. Thornton/p.46

The Search for a Malaysian Cinema: Between U-Wei, Shuhaimi, Yusof and

LPFM/Fuziah Kartini Hassan Basri and Raja Ahmad Alauddin/p.58

On Zhang Yimou's "Golden Touch": A Comparison between "Judou" and "The Last
Emperor"/Faye Zhengxing/p. 74

Lousy Films Had To Come First--Im Kwon-taek, Korean Director/John A. Lent/p. 86

Subjective Culture and History: The Ethnographic Cinema of Wong Kar-wai/Curtis K. Tsui/p.93

The Globalization of Cinema: A Reverse Angle/Uma Magal/p. 125

Potpourri/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 131

Reviews:

Lino Brocka: The Artist and His Times. Ed. Mario A. Hernando/reviewed by Clodualdo

del Mundo, Jr./p. 137

Philippine Film. Vol. VIII, CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art./reviewed by Clodualdo

del Mundo, Jr./p. 137

Shared Differences: Multicultural Media and Practical Pedagogy. Edited by Diane Carson and Lester D. Friedman./reviewed by Edmond Chibeau/p. 138

New Chinese Cinema, Eds. Klaus Eder and Deac Rossell/reviewed by Julian Stringer/p. 142

Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1996

Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p. 1

Wandering Fool: Tora-san and the Comic Traveler/Linda Ehrlich/p.3

Hou Hsiao-hsien's Puppetmaster: The Poetics of Landscape/Nick Browne/p.28

National Cinema and Film Culture in Kazakhstan/Greg Waller/p.39

Dracula's Panties: Notes on Watching Indian Videos/Carol Slingo/p. 50

Short Story into Action: Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953): Naruse's Transposition of the World of Muro onto the Screen/Keiko I. McDonald/p. 53

Lino Brocka as Filmmaker, Dissident, and Constitutional Commissioner/John A.

Lent/p. 71

Ban(g)! Ban(g)! Dangerous Encounter—1^st Kind: Writing with Censorship/Tan See Kam/p.83

Inamura Jane: Keisuke Kuwata and the Japanese Popular Consciousness/Yasue

Kuwahara/p. 109

Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern: Contextual Analysis of Film Through a Confucian/Feminist Matrix/Joann Lee/p. 120

Bibliography of Recent Sources on Asian Cinema/John A. Lent/p. 128

Potpourri/compiled by Carol Slingo/p. 158

Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 1996/1997
Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p. 1
ACSS '97 Conference/Suzie Sau-Fong Young/p.4

Tales from Peripheries: Why Write About Japanese Movies?/J. L. Anderson/p.9
Problems with the Treatment of Hong Kong Cinema As Camp/Julian Stringer/p.44
Anti-Maoist Gender: Hibiscus 53 Town's Naturalization of a Dengist
Sex/Gender/Kinship System/Andrew Kipnis/p.66
A Study of Asian Tradition in Satyajit Ray's The World of Apu/Victor Or/p.76
Cinematic Sexualities: The Two Faces of Abe Sada in Japanese "Poruno" Film/Christine
Marran/p. 81
Teach for A While, Direct for A While: An Interview with Xie Fei/John A. Lent/p.91
Symbolism Through Zhang Yimou's Subversive Lens in His Early Films/Haili
Kong/p.98
The Makings of a Passion: 40 Years of Living with the World of Chinese Films/Régis
Bergeron/p. 116
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 126
Review
Seoul Stirring: 5 Korean Directors, by Tony Rayns/Julian Stringer/p. 143
Symposium of Film Collections in Asia Official Report/Yuheng Bao/p. 146
Potpourri/compiled by Carol Slingo/p. 151

Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 1997

Mapping Interiors: An Interview with Adoor Gopalakrishnan/Suranjan Ganguly/p. 1

Schindler's List in Malaysia: Anti-Semitism or National Politics?/Timothy R. White & Emmett Winn/p. 18

Transnationalization As Affected from Within: Contestation of the Nation-Space in Lino Brocka's Jaguar/Rolando B. Tolentino/p.34

From Wenmingxi (Civilized Play) to Yingxi (Shadowplay): The Foundation of Shanghai Film Industry in the 1920s/Dafeng Zhong, Zhen Zhang, & Yingjin Zhang/p.46

Novella on Screen: Kawabata's The Izu Dancer and Gosha's Film Version (1932)/Keiko I. McDonalcl/p.65

The Politics of Horror: The Aswang in Film/Felicidad C. Lim/p.81

Eve in Calcutta: The Indianization of a Movie Madwoman/Gretchen D. Bisplinghoff & Carol J. Slingo/p.99

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 112

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China)/compiled by Yuheng Bao & John A. Lent/p. 124

Potpourri/compiled by Carol J. Slingo/p. 132

Exhibitions, January-April, 1997/compiled by Linda C. Ehrlich/p.138

Review

Picturing Japaneseness, by Darrell W. Davis/Linda C. Ehrlich/p. 140

ACSS '97: Program/Suzie Sau-Fong Young/p. 142

Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1998

Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p. 1

Wu Yonggang and the Ambivalence in the Chinese Experience of Modernity: A Study of His Three Films of the Mid- 1930s/Zhiwei Xiao/p.3

The Point of View in Shanghai Triad/Faye Zhengxing/p. 16

Apocalyptic Chaos in Tiger Cage/Tony Williams/p.29

Hong Kong Cinema in Korea: Its Prosperity and Decay/Daiwon Hyun/p.38

Singapore Film Fever: Report on the Tenth Singapore International Film Festival, Apri1 1997/Gina Marchetti/p.46

Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, and The Home and the World: Indian Nationalist History and Colonial/Postcolonial Perspectives in Film and Fiction/Gautam Kundu/p.53

The Production of Modernity In Japanese National Cinema: Shochiku Kamata Style in the 1920s and 1930s/Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano/p.69

Film Review/Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu, Japan, 1996. directed by Suo Masayuki)/Linda C. Ehrlich/p.94

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 108

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (published in China)/compiled by Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent/p. 120

China's Film: Happenings, Discussions, and Resources/edited by John A. Lent and Yuheng Bao/p. 126

Minutes. ACSS Business Meeting, 1997/p. 134

Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 1998

PROCEEDINGS ACSS CONFERENCE '97

Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p.2

ACSS ’97 --Afterword as Preface/Suzie San Fong Young/p.3

Sixth Biennial Conference/Harriet Blankevoort/p.6

HONG KONG

The Irresistible: Hong Kong Movie Once Upon A Time in China Series - An Extensive Interview with Director/Producer Tsui Hark/Ange Hwang/p. 10

A City On Fire: Hong Kong Cinema As Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism/Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes/p.25

Film Style and Performance: Comedy and Kung Fu From Hong Kong/Greg Dancer/p.42

Hong Kong, 1997; Mexico, 1917. Motifs and Historical Perspective/Ken Hall/p.51

Modem Identity and Karmic Retribution in Clara Law's Reincarnations of Golden Lotus/Yomi Braester/p.58

Ashes of Times: The Tragedy and Salvation of the Chinese Intelligentsia/Juanita Huan Zhou/p.62

Kwan Tak-Hing and the New Generation/Tony Williams/p.71

Jackie Chan and the Re-invention of Tradition/Ramie Tateishi/p.78

CHINA

Art Film is Immortal and National Film Lives Forever/Xie Fei (Translated by Chen Xiao Ling)/p.86 ,

The Evolution of China’s War Movie in Five Decades: Factors Contributing to Changes, Limits, and Implications/Junhao Hong/p.93

"Encountering (China, My) Sorrow”/Suzie Sau Fong Young/p. 107

Zhang Yimou in Lumière et Compagnie (1995): 52 Seconds x 9 Readings: An Exercise in Over-interpretation/Shelly Kraicer/p. 112

JAPAN

Mikio Naruse and the Japanese Women's Film/Catherine Russell/p. 120

Ausgraben und Erinnern: Nomida Chodai Eiga and Betrayal on a Railroad Track/Harriet Blankevoort/p. 126

Yang Kuei-fei: The Film and Legend/Masako Nakagawa/p. 138

CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND OTHER COUNTRIES

The "Shanghai Factor” in Hong Kong Cinema: A Tale of Two Cities in Historical Perspectives/Zhang Zhen/p. 146

Time, Space, Identity, and the City: Contemporary Urban China and Japan Projected in Film/Eve Gabereau/p. 160

Depicting the Buddha, Teaching the Dharma/Cynthia Contreras/p. 176

Indian Cinema Fifty Years After Independence: A Cinema of Ferment/Uma Magal/p. 193

Popular Dialogues of a "Discreet" Nature/Denise Tang/p. 198

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 208

Additional Chinese Cinema Periodicals/compiled by Xu Ying/p.221

Potpourri/compiled by Carol J. Slingo/p.223

Exhibitions List/compiled by Linda C. Ehrlich/p.233

Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1999

Images of Americans in Postwar Japanese Cinema/Keiko I. McDonald/p. 1

Beijing Bastard, The Sixth Generation Directors, and "Generation-X" in China/Harry H Kuoshu/p. 18

Philippine Cinema: A Historical Overview/Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr./p.29

A Repetition Compulsion: Discontinuity Editing, Classical Chinese Aesthetics, and Hong Kong's Culture of Disappearance/Joelle Collier/p.67

At One with the Other: An Examination of John Woo's Vision Climaxing in Face Off/Uma Magal/p.80

Cheng Jihua, Pioneer in Chinese Film Studies: Interview I/Vivian Shen/p.87

Chang Jihua and Li Shaobai, Pioneers in Chinese Film Studies: Interview II/John A. Lent/p.91

Ritwik Ghatak between the Messianic and the Material/Pravina Cooper/p.96

A Scene at the Threshold: Liminality in the Films of Kitano Takeshi/Aaron Gerow/p.107

A Satyajit Ray Symposium

The Curious Case of "The Alien": Satyajit Ray vs. Steven Spielberg/Somdatta Mandal/p. 116

Tagore's Broken Nest vs. Ray's Charulata: A Ctitique/Narasingha P. Sil/p. 130

The Carnivalesque in Satyajit Ray's Nights and Days in the Forest (1970)/Darius Cooper/p. 145

Revisiting Sholay a.k.a. Flames of the Sun/K. Hariharan/p. 151

Review/John A. Lent/p. 155

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China PRC)/compiled by Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent/p. 156

News from ChinaJedited by Yubeng Ban and John A. Lent~p. 160

Potpourri/compiled by Carol J. Slingo/p. 163

Vol. 11, No, 1, Spring/Summer 2000

Pioneers of Asian Cinema Studies/John A. Lent/p. 1

The Writing of Indian Film/Erik Barnouw/p.2

The Krishnaswamy Approach: Documentary and Commitment/Linda C. Ehrlich/p.9

A Typography of Chinese Film Historiography/Yingjin Zhang/p. 16

Asian Filmmakers Moving into Hollywood: Genre Regulation and Auteur Aesthetics/Pei-Chi Chung/p.33

Structural Transformation of the Korean Film Industry, 1988-1993/Seung Hyun

Park/p. 51

The Opium War in the Movies: History, Politics and Propaganda/Zhiwei Xiao/p.68

Assassins and Children: The Mythology of the Lone Wolf and Cub Films/John Pusateri/p. 84

Eileen Chang, Woman's Film, and Domestic Shanghai in the 1940s/Poshek Fu/p.97

From Xin nüxing to Liren xing: Changing Conceptions of the "New Woman" in Republican Era Chinese Films/Vivian Shen/p. 114

Hong Kong Cinema, the Boat People, and To Liv(e)/Tony Williams/p. 131

Problems and Prospects of Teaching Asian Cinema in America: A Symposium/edited by Sheldon H. Lu

Introduction: Teaching Asia Through Film/Sheldon H. Lu/p. 144

Tapping the Abundant Resources Available to Teach Asia Through Film/John A.

Lent/p. 146

Teaching Japan Through Cinema/Keiko I. McDonald/p. 159

Problems of Teaching Asian Cinema in a World Film History Course/Marcia

Landy/p. 164

Floating Weeds: Teaching Asian Cinema...Afloat/Lucy Fischer/p. 169

Cultural Studies and Canons: Asian Cinemas across Disciplines and Institutions/Anne T.

Ciecko/p. t 76

Thoughts on Teaching Chinese Cinemas in America/Sheldon H. Lu/p. 187

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/John A. Lent/p. 192

Exhibitions List/prepared by Linda C. Ehrlich/p.222

Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2000

Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p. 1

The Memory of Labor Oppression in Korean Cinema: The Death of a Young Worker in Single Spark (1995)/Seung Hyun Park/p. 10

Last of the Great Movie Moguls/Erik Barnouw/p.24

Reflexivity in Recent Iranian Cinema: The Case of Mohsen Makhmalbaf/Donato Totaro/p.32

Indian Women in the Flesh: From Prose to Screen/Linda Hemphill/p.47

Animation Film Production in Beijing/Xu Ying/p.60

Crossings: A Transnational Cinematic Text/Tony Williams/p.67

Seoul as Cinematic Cityscape: Shiri and the Politico-Aesthetics of Invisibility/David Scott Diffrient/p.76

Resisting the Stage: Imaging/Imagining Ruan Lingyu in Stanley Kwan's Actress/Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover/p.92

Dead Man Gazing: Posthumous Voyeurism in 12 Storeys, or "Splacing" Singapore's Official and Unofficial Discourses?/Michael Lee/p.99

Keynote Address by John A. Lent at "Centennial Reflections on Chinese Cinema: A Generational Dialogue," Film Festival and International Symposium, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, October 7, 2000/p. 132

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 137

Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Chronicle of Events: 1978-2000/edited by John A. Lent, Wang Renying, and Yuheng Bao/p. 167

Recent Publications on As/an Cinema (Published in China)/compiled by Yuhang Bao and John Lent/p. 179

Potpourri/compiled by Carol J. Slingo/p.185

Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages/compiled and edited by Frank Joseph Shulman with contributions by Patricia Polansky and Anna Leon Shulman/p. 191

Review/John A. Lent/p. 195

Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2001

Editor's Note/John A. Lent/p. 1

Correction/p.2

Semerah Padi: A Proposal for a New Nation/William van der Heide/p.3

Cinema and Iran: Culture and Politics in the Islamic Republic/Ali Mohammadi/Eric
Egan/p. 14
Coming of Age: Bollywood Productions of the Nineties/Coonoor Kripalani/p.29

Neglected “Classical” Periods: Hong Kong and Korean Cinemas of the 1960s/Peter

Rist/p.49

Satyajit Ray's Alien: Agantuk/Narasingha P. Sil/p.67

"To Live" Beyond Good and Evil/Rujie Wang/p.74

Blood Spear. Mt. Fuji: Uchida Tomu's Conflicted Comeback from Manchuria/Craig
Watts/p.91

From Saviors to Rapists: G.I.s, Women, and Children in Korean War Films/Hye Seung
Chung/p. 103

Has the Movie Red Corner Driven China into Its Corner?/Faye Zhengxing/p. 117
Mrinal Sen: ‘Rambling Thoughts’ on Unforgettable Masters, Lost Friends, Enigmatic
Ruins and Life/Gönül Dönmez-Colin/p. 129

Review/p. 141

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/compiled by John A. Lent/p. 144

Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2001

Erik Barnouw (1908-2001)/David Ehrlich/p. 1

ACSS 2002 To Convene in Jeonju, Korea, April 2002/John A. Lent/p.3

Renaissance of Korean Film Industry/Daiwon Hyun/p.8

Formation of Korean Film Industry under Japanese Occupation/Noh, Kwang Woo/p.20

Animation in China Yesterday and Today-- The Pioneers Speak Out/John A. Lent and Xu Ying/p.34

Growing Old with Kurosawa and The Bomb: Japanese Aesthetic Traditions and the American Desire for an Authentic Response/Jerome F. Shapiro/p.50

Different from Difference: Revisiting Kurutta ichipeiji/Jonathan E. Abel/p.72

Patriarchy and Male Seduction: Satyajit Ray's Devi Revisited/Narasingha P. Sil/p.97

Like Father, Like Son: Yuen Wo-ping's Iron Monkey and the Evolution of Wong Fei-hung/Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover/p. 110

Michelle Yeoh: Under Eastern Eyes/Tony Williams/p. 119

Blood Money: Woman's Desire and Consumption in Ermo/Beth Notar/p. 132

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema/Compiled by John A. Lent/p. 154

Glimpses/John A. Lent/p. 178

Potpourri/compiled by Carol J. Slingo/p. 180