Asian Cinema Cumulative Index

Vol. 19, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2008

Sri Lankan Cinema
Introduction	Ian Conrich and Nelly Gillet
The Early Phase of Sri Lankan Cinema	Wimal Dissanayake
Of Ethnic Battles, Truces, and a “National”1 Cinema: The “Bolly-and-Hollywood Syndrome” as a Catalyst in the Construction of Sri Lankan National Cinema	Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin
Post-Independence Sinhala Films: Milestones of Social Change in Sri Lanka	Manouri Jayasinghe and Niluka Dissanayake
Prohibited Desires: The Military-Apparel Nexus and Its Politics of Sexuality in the Sinhala Language Cinema	Neloufer de Mel
Reflections on Sexuality in the Modern Sinhala Cinema	Sunila Abeysekera
“Reels on Wheels”: Mobile Cinema in Rural Colonial Ceylon (1910-1974): An Interview with Hans Van Starrex of New Imperial Talkies Ltd.	Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin
Lester James Peries and the Evolution of Sri Lankan Cinema	Tanya Uluwitiya, Ian Conrich, Nelly Gillet
Sri Lankan Cinema: A Bibliography of Material in English	Compiled by Ian Conrich

From Routes to Roots or Vice Versa: Transformation of Urban Space in China’s “New Urban Films”	Hongwei Lu
Representations of Gender in Malaysian Malay inema: Implications for Human Security	Fuziah Kartini Hassan Basri
Red Theories, Blue Theories, and Beyond —The Evolution of Cinema Studies and Theories in Mainland China	Chen Xihe
Heim Movies: The Return of the Cyborg Double in the Ring Franchise	Madeline Ashby
For the Sake of God: Religion, Militancy and Identity in Pakistani Cinema	Satarupa Dasgupta
Mother Earth Tuya’s Marriage	Ya-chen Chen
Doomsday, Past, Present, and Future: Kinji Fukasaku’s Virus	Tony Williams
Spectacles, but no Wheelchairs	Lyle Pearson
Representation of the Kwangju Uprising--A Petal (1996) and May 18 (2007)	Chunhyo Kim
The (Auto)biography of a Madman: Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Zhang Yang’s Quitting	Aijun Zhu
South Korea’s Film Dilemma in the U.S. Market : “Copywood”1 or Asian New Wave? — Case Study of Dragon Wars and The Host	HaeLim Suh
Clepsydra: The Fluid Melancholy of What Time Is It There	David Barton
The Transnational Reach of Korean Popular Culture in Asia: Influences of the Korean Wave on Understandings of Korea and Pan-Asian Identity	Jiwon Yoon
Flashback: Notes on Watching Malayalam Movies in 1990	Carol Slingo
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Book Review: Haili Kong and John A. Lent, eds. One Hundred Years of Chinese Cinema: A Generational Dialogue	Sheldon Lu
Film Reviews Review of the Criterion DVD set (#386) of Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho dayu, directed by Mizoguchi Kenji, 1954, 124 min., b/w)	Linda C. Ehrlich
The Willow Tree (Beed-e majnoon, 2005), directed and written by Majid Majidi, Iran, 2007, 96 min., color	Linda C. Ehrlich
A Difficult Indian Double Feature: Amu (2006) and The Widow Colony (2005)	Lyle Pearson
Vanaja (a girls name, Telugu, 2006, a film by Ranjesh Domalpalli)	Lyle Pearson
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2008

The Road to Invincible Asia: Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia’s Taiwanese Films	Tony Williams
Transcultural Sounds: Music, Identity, and the Cinema of Wong-Kar-wai	Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Lake Wang Hu
The Carnal Hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand	Nicholas Y.B. Wong
Dark Side of Modernization: Bong Jun Ho’s Memories of Murder (2005)	Noh, Kwang Woo
Nostalgia and Anticipation: A Case Study of Contemporary Japanese Melodrama	Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia
Chinese Cinema in the Global Age: Ashes of Time and the Human Condition	Sinkwan Cheng
Archetypes in Zhang Yimou’s Films: Significance of Regional Culture	Yuan Gao
Cinematic Geography, Martial Arts Fantasy, and Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei-hung Series	Weijie Song
When Sadako Meets Mr. Vampire: The Impact of Ringu on Hong Kong Ghost Films	Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
Marketing Boys’ Love: Taiwan’s Independent Film, Eternal Summer, and Its Audiences	Hong-Chi Shiau
Remapping Ozu’s Tokyo? The Interplay between History and Memory in Hou Hsia-Hsien’s Café Lumière	I-Fen Wu
44th Antalya Golden Orange and 3rd Eurasia Film Festivals. Oct. 19-28, 2007	Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Review: King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema	Coonoor Kripalani
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China)	Compiled by Yuheng Bao, John A. Lent, and Donghong Song
Cumulative Index: Asian Cinema Vols. 7-18 (1995-2007)	Compiled by Jae Woong Kwon and John A. Lent with Xu Ying and Jiwon Yoon
Cumulative Index: Asian Cinema Vols. 7-18 (1995-2007) Alphabetical List of Authors
Mahjong and Chicken Feet
Addition

Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2007

FILM OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: A SYMPOSIUM edited by Khoo Gaik Cheng and Sophia Siddique Harvey
Introduction	Khoo Gaik Cheng and Sophia Siddique Harvey
Spectral Imaginings and National (Be)Longing in When the Tenth Month Comes and Spirits	Lan Duong
Racial Hopes/Dreams/Fantasies: Negotiating Race, Class, and the Nation in Sepet	Sze Wei Ang
Contesting Indonesian Nationalism and Masculinity in Cinema	Intan Paramaditha
Negotiating the Spectre and Spectatorship of Trauma in Rithy Panh’s S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)	Rowena Aquino
Watching the Military’s War Movies: (De)Constructing the Enemy of the State in a Contemporary Burmese Soldier Drama	Jane M. Ferguson
From Beyond Rangoon to Shan VCD: The Politics and Authenticity of Appropriation	Amporn Jirattikorn
Notes from the Underground: Film Activism in Small Town Java	Dimas Jayasrana
The Quick Turn-Around of Southeast Asian Animation	John A. Lent
Report on the Third Annual New Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference	Adam Knee

Daring To Be First: The Japanese Woman Director Tazuko Sakane (1904-1971)	Keiko McDonald
Notes on Contemporary Singapore Cinema (1991-2007)	Tan See Kam
South Korean Scholars Studying North Korean Movies	Jiwon Yoon
Matrubhoomi: Gender Violence and the Motherland	Satarupa Dasgupta
Teaching Japanese Culture Through Anime: A Case Study	Masako Hamada
Between Illusion and Reality: Jia Zhangke’s Vision of Present-day China in The World	Xiaoling Shi
Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War	Tony Williams
Nostalgia, The Search for Japanese Identity, and Tora-san as Cultural Icon	Toby Leigh Matoush
Traces of Time in Traces of Love (2006): South Korean National History and the Time-Image	David Martin-Jones
Trauma and Comfort: A Study of Korean Romantic Melodrama	Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting
The Moth in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Richard Raskin
Cinema “Oriental”: Asian and Arab Films at the Cairo International Film Festival	Anne Ciecko
A Brighter Summer Day: Mourning Yang De-Chang (Edward)	Hong-Chi Shiau
Situating Jordanian Cinema: A Report on Contemporary Film Culture(s) in Amman	Anne Ciecko
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China)	Yuheng Bao, John A. Lent and Donghong Song

Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2007

The Comparative Entries of Women Directors into South Korean and Southeast Asian Film Industries	Anchalee Chaiworaporn
A Daughter’s Recollection: A Man of Silence – Bimal Roy	Rinki Roy Bhattacharya
After the Wave: Sex, Violence, and Comedy in the Films of Takashi Miike	Rie Karatsu
Feng Xiaogang and Chinese New Year Films	Ying Zhu
A Socio-Cultural Study of the Growing Popularity of Pan-Chinese Movies in the U.S.: Trends, Contributing Factors, and Implications	Tuo-Yo Su, Jang Hyun Kim, and Junhao Hong
A Great Media Wall — China’s Film Policy and Its Impacts on U.S. Film Exporters	Mu Lin

ASIAN ANIMATION: A MINI-SYMPOSIUM edited by John A. Lent
The Transformation of Asian Animation: 1995-Present	John A. Lent
Hong Kong Animation: The Uncanny Brush in Wuxia Film	Kenny Chow Ka-nin
The Establishment and Maturation of the Chinese Cartoon School	Jin Tianyi
Transformation from Comic to 2D, Then the 3D Approach: Character Representation of Old Master Q	Ann Y. Y. Leung

Formation of Stereotype: The Disabled as the “Other” in Hindi Films	Tutun Mukherjee
Issues of Decolonization: Two Essay Documentaries by Evans Chan	Tony Williams
Re-imagining the Japanese: Himatsuri (Fire Festival,), the Film and the Novella	Noboru Tomonari
Eternal Image in the Mirror: In Pursuit of Modernity and the Construction of Chinese Ethical Film Melodrama	Chungeng He and Fanghua Wang
Nobuo Nakagawa: Master Director of Horror Films	Art Black
Reflection on Chinese Cinema in the Context of Globalization	Ni Zhen (Translated by Lingling Pan)
An Essay:The “Baimaan” or “Betrayed Vision” of Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding	Darius Cooper
An Essay: Q&A: Me Know Something About India, Me See Bombay Dreams Soon, with apologies to Vikas Swarup (author of Q&A) and David Sedaris (Author of Me Talk Pretty Someday)	Lyle Pearson
Review: The Clay Bird (Matir Moina, dir. Tareque Masud, 2002, France/Bangladesh co-production, 98 min)	Linda C. Ehrlich
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2006

Forever Fever: “Disco Culture,” Commercialism, and Singaporean Society	Michael Stein
Bridges Between: Reflections on Dubai and Its International Film Festival	Anne Ciecko
A New Day in Old Sana’a: An Interview with the Director and Producer of Yemen’s First Feature Film	Anne Ciecko
Kim Ki-Duk’s Non-Person Films	Sheng-mei Ma
No Turning Back: An Interview with Kang Je-gyu	R.L. Cagle
Allegories of Reunification in the Long Arm of the Law Series	Tony Williams
Monsters, Midgets, Politicians and Superheroes: The Philippines on Film	Art Black
As Simple as an Egg: Lessons about Love in Ashes of Time	Ya-chen Chen
The Distilled Art of Ethical Poetry — The Aesthetic Pursuit of Chinese Ethical Melodrama Film	Chungeng He
Crossroads of Experience: Miyazaki Hayao’s Global/Local Nexus	Jay Goulding
Kurosawa’s Censored Satori	Walter Klinger
The Man Who Re-Shot John Wayne: Kitano Takeshi’s Search for a Globalist Vision	Gerald Sim
A Study of Japanese, Korean, and Hong Kong Beauty Comedies	Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting
A Few Moments with Anthony Ng	Lisa Odham Stokes
Qui Ju Goes to Court: Relating Cinematic Art to Juridical Reality	Fiona Sze Lorrain
“Little Red Flowers,” or a Nightmare Gone Awry, a Coming of Age Movie for a New Generation in China	Mahlon D. Meyer
Review: Silencing the Clamour of the World: Erice-Kiarostami, Correspondences. Curated by Alain Bergala and Jordi Balló	Linda C. Ehrlich
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Correction

Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2006

REFLECTIONS, IMAGES OF ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES SOCIETY CONFERENCE, 2005, BEIJING AND SHANGHAI
Introduction	John A. Lent
Introspection and Reconstruction: Review of the Centennial Celebration of Chinese Cinema and the 2005 Annual Conference of ACSS	Shi Chuan
Reflections on the Literary Tendencies of Chinese Film History	Li Suyuan

PIONEERS OF ASIAN FILM STUDIES edited by John A. Lent
The Origins of Asian Film Studies: Seven Pioneers’ Recollections	John A. Lent
Li Shaobai: From Pioneer Film Researcher to “Dead Tiger” to Grand Old Mentor of Film Studies	John A. Lent
The Story of a Researcher of Chinese Film History	Li Suyuan
Asian Film Research and Me	Ni Zhen
Asian Film Study as an Offshoot of Mass Communication	John A. Lent
A Lonely Long March	Law Kar
The Accidental Scholar	Chris Berry
Looking Back	George S. Semsel
Chinese Cinema: Exposures, Research, and Change	Esther C. M. Yau

Ada Apa Dengan Indonesia Cinema? (What’s up with Indonesian Cinema?) Interviews with Filmmakers Riri Riza and Rudy Soedjarwo	Anne Ciecko
Home, Nostalgia, and Memory: The Remedy of Identity Crisis in New Thai Cinema	Anchalee Chaiworaporn
Imagining Difference: Bimal Roy’s Representation of the Margins	Tutun Mukherjee
The New Edge of Indian Cinema: An Analysis of the Treatments of Gender, Sexuality, and Matrimony in the New Indian Cinema in English	Satarupa Dasgupta
Hong Kong Martial Arts Women	Tony Williams
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, and House of the Flying Daggers: Interpreting Gender Thematics in the Contemporary Swordplay Film -- A View From the West	Jacqueline Levitin
Kim Hyun-seok on Joint Security Area, YMCA Baseball Team, and His Career	Lisa Odham Stokes
The Floating World: Representations of Japan in Lost in Translation and demonlover	Anita Schillhorn van Veen
A Daughter’s Recollection: Xu Ru-Hui and Chinese Early Motion Picture Music	Xu Wen-Xia
A Daughter’s Recollection: Sound and Color in Sun Mingjing’s Silent b/w Films — The Paradox of a Documentary /Educational Filmmaker	Sun Jianqiu
Sun Mingjin and John Grierson, a Comparative Study of Early Chinese and British Documentary Film Movements	Ying Zhu and Tongdao Zhang
Navigating on the Ruins: Space, Power and History in Contemporary Chinese Independent Documentaries	Qi Wang
Review: The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through Tears, Arthur Nolletti, Jr.	Linda C. Ehrlich
Review: Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films, Paul Clark	Susan Jacobson
Review: The Clash of Traditional Chinese Culture: A Personal View on The Day the Sun Turned Cold	Jinghao Zhou
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2005

Important Notices
History, Memory, Nostalgia: Rewriting Socialism in Chinese Cinema and Television Drama	Sheldon H. Lu
On Western Critiques of Chinese Film	Nick Browne
Dealing Death, Saving Lives: Forms of Otherness in Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Nizhalkkuthu/Shadow Kill	Suranjan Ganguly
Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi by Kitano Takeshi: Not a Mere “Entertainment”	Ken Hall
Chinese Melodrama, Japanese Nostalgia	Hui Xiao
Izo: Takashi Miike’s History Lesson	Tony Williams
Reconciling the Past/Imagining the Future: The Korean Adoption Issue and Representations of Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular Culture	Tobias Hübinette
Something Borrowed, Something New: Ye Ban Ge Sheng (Song at Midnight) and the Cross-Cultural Reinterpretations of Horror in Twentieth Century China	John Chua
Lost Heroes: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Japanese and Hong Kong Gangster Films	Yoko Ono
A Realization of Harmony: Yin-Yang Theory in Grandma and Her Ghosts	Beth Snowberger
Volcano High and the Lost Authority: The Socio-Political Transition of South Korea	Jae Hyung Ryu
Heroism/Terrorism: Empire Building in Contemporary Chinese Films	Maurizio Marinelli
Jung Ji-Woo’s Happy End: Modernity, Masculinity, and Murder	Cynthia Childs
Searching for a Third Way: Mizoguchi Kenji’s Sisters of the Gion and Kakei Fumio’s Shanghai as Responses to Early- to Mid-20th Century Japanese Imperialism	Jessica Langer
Three Films about Food by Fruit Chan: Allegories of Hong Kong-China Relations after 1997	Aida Yuen Wong
Buddhist Symbolism in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran: A Counterpoint to Human Chaos	Kenneth D. Nordin
Diseased Bodies and Domestic Space: Transmodern Space in Tsai Ming-Liang’s The Hole	Jasmine Nadua Trice
WKW: A Cinema of the Exappropriation	Jean-Michel Durafour
There Is a Beauty in the Door(way) of Flying Daggers	Chen, Ya-chen
Characterizing Masculinity: Moving Toward Male Bonding	Ha Sung Hwang, Sung Bok Park
Fifth Annual New York Korean Film Festival: “Truth or Dare”	Anne Ciecko
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2005

ASIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM: A SYMPOSIUM edited by John A. Lent and Aaron Gerow
Introduction	John A. Lent and Aaron Gerow
Documentary as Haunting of the Real: The Logic of Capital in Blind Shaft	Ban Wang
Repatriation and the History of Korean Documentary Filmmaking	Nam Lee
The Rise of Korean Independent Documentary: A Case Study of Sang-Kye-Dong Olympics (27min, 1988, by Kim Dong Won)	Suhi Choi
The Significance of Island of Demons and Kriss: The Bali Sub-genre of the South-Seas Films, Their Primitivist Discourse and Tropicalist Fantasy	Geff Green
Sleepy Consciousness of Thai Documentary Film	Chalida Uabumrungjit
Finding an Indigenous Film Voice: An Interview with Auraeus Solito	Interview and Introduction by Aaron Gerow
Migration and Transgression: Female Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking in Japan	Hikari Hori
Taiwan and Its Spectacular Others: Aesthetic Reflexivity in Two Documentaries by Women Filmmakers from Taiwan	Kuei-fen Chiu
Salaam Cinema: Unlikely Journeys in Documentary	Antonio Traverso and Martin Mhando
“Not Firing Arrows”: Multiplicity, Heterogeneity and the Future of Documentary: Interview with Amar Kanwar	Anne Rutherford
Dealing with the Identity Crisis: Japanese Cinema Left and Right	Luk Van Haute
Learning Tokyo by Creating It Otherwise: Personal Media Authors in Tokyo, 1975-2002	James Tobias

Fragmented Visions of Social Stasis in the Films of Tran Anh Hung	Patrick L. Carr
The History, Myth, and Memory of Maoist Chinese Cinema, 1949-1966	Greg Lewis
Married to Cinema: Actress and Filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka (1909-1976)	Keiko McDonald
The Light of Life and Death — The Function of Cinematography and Lighting in Two Films by Kore-eda Hirokazu	Timothy Iles
Reflections on a Screen Narcissist: Leslie Cheung’s Star Persona in the Films of Wong Kar-wai	Gary Bettinson
Tony Leung Ka-Fai: The Other Tony Leung	Tony Williams
Cinematic Remembrances: The Search for Local Histories in Post-1997 Films by Ann Hui and Fruit Chan	Vivian Lee
Savage Love: Violence in Service of Romance in the Films of Dante Lam	Aaron Smuts
The Chinese Fifth Generation Directors and Their Films	Min-May Jessie Chen and Mazharul Haque
Subversion of the Feminist Myth in Chinese Film and Its Dilemma	Guo Wu
Genre, Postcolonialism, and the Filipino Jose Rizal	Janelle Tangonan Anderson
Rapacious Raptors and Global Technocrats in The Wicked City	Tyler Stokes
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
The China Film Research Society [Zhongguo dianying yanjiuhui]

Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2004

National, Transnational, and International: Chinese Cinema and Asian Cinema in the Context of Globalization -- The Centennial Celebration of Chinese Cinema and the 2005 Annual Conference of ACSS
Into the Sc(re)enery: Bollywood Locations and Docu-diaspora	Anne Ciecko
Lurking in the Shadows: Toshia Mori and Lotus Long, Exploring Their Enigmatic Careers (Part I)	M. Joseph Worrell
Lurking in the Shadows: Toshia Mori and Lotus Long, Exploring Their Enigmatic Careers (Part II)	M. Joseph Worrell
Mimicry as Failure: Jackie Chan in Hollywood	Kenneth Chan
Three Seasons and the Aroma of Self-Realization	Tony Williams
Shadow Archetypes in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Hulk: A Jungian Perspective	Kenneth D. Nordin
An Essay: On the Father Figures in Zhang Yimou’s Films: From Red Sorghum to Hero	Chen Xihe
The Mission of Popular Film: The Use of Tradition and Its Implication in a Tamil Movie	Osamu Note
On Making Wonderful Days Where Skies Are Dazzlingly Blue: Interview with Kim, Moon-Saeng, Director of Wonderful Days	Jae-Woong Kwon
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2004

THE QUESTION OF THE NATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FILM: A SYMPOSIUM edited by Christopher Lupke
The Question of the Nation in Contemporary Chinese Film: An Introduction	Christopher Lupke
The Muted Interstices of Testimony: A City of Sadness and the Predicament of Multiculturalism in Taiwan	Christopher Lupke
Monogamorphous Desires, Faltering Forms: Structure, Content, and Contradiction in The Personals (Zhenghun Qishi) (Taiwan, 1998)	Nick Kaldis
Between Memory and Forgetting: Clara Law’s Vision of the Transnational Self in Autumn Moon	Dian Li
Play and Being Playful: The Quotidian in Cinematic Remembrance of the Mao Era	Xinmin Liu

Chinese Cinema at the Millennium (Part One)	Evans Chan
Kagawa Kyōko—A New Look at Japan’s “Most Unassuming Star”	Linda C. Ehrlich and Kishi Yoshiko
Globalization and Cultural Narcissism: Note On Bollywood Cinema	Wimal Dissanayake
Korean Animation: From Adolescence to Adulthood, 1998-2003	John A. Lent
Contesting Diasporic Subjectivity: James Lee, Malaysian Independent Filmmaker	Khoo Gaik Cheng
John Woo’s War: Real (Reel) Dreams, Windtalkers and the Hollywood Machine	Lisa Odham Stokes
Mission Impossible 2 or “Alice in Cruiseland”	Tony Williams
Japanese Elements in Hong Kong Erotic Films	Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
The Lazy Gaze: The Aesthetics of Consumerism in Itami Jūzō’s Tampopo	Timothy Iles
Throne of Blood: Kurosawa’s Cinema of Allusion	John Gall
The Marathi Film Kunku and the Social Problems It Portrays	Swagata P. Pandit
Theorizing Intervention: The Presence of Hong Kong Cinema in Asian America	Susie J. Lee
A Study of Characteristics of the Windowing Method of Distributing Korean Independent Movies	Hoonseok Kim and Daiwon Hyun
Report on the International Film Festival-Mumbai	Frances Gateward
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2003

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
On the Dragon Lady’s Trail: Rediscovering the Films and Image of Anna May Wong in Classical Hollywood Cinema	Joseph Worrell
Imaginary Constructs as Instruments of Critical Engagement: Titanic Reference in Zhang Yimou’s The Road Home	Aili Mu
A Woman Director’s Rising Star: The First Two Films of Hisako Matsui (b. 1946)	Keiko McDonald
Lost Memories of Korean Cinema: Film Policies During Japanese Colonial Rule, 1919-1937	Brian Yecies with Ae-Gyung Shim
Transformation of Korean Film Industry During the U.S. Military Occupation Era (1945-1948)	Noh Kwang Woo
Gendering the Thai Economic Crisis: The Films of Pen-ek Ratanaruang	Adam Knee
New Taiwanese Cinema and Its Historical Meanings	Seung Hyun Park
Big Shot’s Funeral: China, Sony, and the WTO	Shujen Wang
Images of Uma (Horses) in the Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa	Kenneth D. Nordin
Food Fight, Food Fight: Culture and Economy in Chicken and Duck Talk	Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
Transnational Stardom: The Case of Maggie Cheung Man-yuk	Tony Williams
Camera Movement in Japanese Silent Films (and the 20th Giornate del Cinema Muto, in Sacile, Italy, October 2001)	Peter Rist
The Emperor of Shanghai Movies of the 1930s, Jin Yan (1910-1983)	Cho Pock-rey
An Interview with Qin Yi, Jun Yan’s Wife	Cho Pock-rey
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China 2002-2003)	Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent
Potpourri	Carol J. Slingo

Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2003

ASIAN ANIMATION: ARTISTIC AND COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVES edited by John A. Lent
Preface	John A. Lent
The New Age of Asian Animation	John A. Lent
Research on the Achievements of Japan’s First Three Animators	Nobuyuki Tsugata
The Japanese Puppet Animation Master: Kihachiro Kawamoto	Yokota, Masao
Having It Both Ways: Making Children Films an Adult Matter in Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro	Mariano Prunes
China’s Animation Beginnings: The Roles of the Wan Brothers and Others	John A. Lent and Xu Ying
Some Characteristics of Chinese Animation	Zhang Huilin
Hong Kong Animation: My Life As McDull	Hu Tze Yue, Gigi
Taiwan’s Cuckoo’s Nest and the New Labor Situation	Hong Chi Shiau and John A. Lent
Development of Malaysian Animation from the Perspective of Pioneer Animator Hassan Muthalib	John A. Lent
The Situation of Film and Animation In Laos	Nobuyuki Tsugata
Thai Animation’s Great Strides: A Report	John A. Lent
Famous’s House of Animation -- Creativity and Independence in Indian Animation	Harvey Deneroff
Animation in Nepal	Fungma Fudong

New Turkish Cinema – Individual Tales of Common Concerns	Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Natural Culturalism in The Ballad of Narayama: A Study of Shohei Imamura’s Thematic Concerns	Lee Wood Hung
Philippine Movies in 2001: The Film Industry Is Dead! Long Live Philippine Cinema!	Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.
Big Shot From Beijing: Feng Xiaogang’s He Sui Pian and Contemporary Chinese Commercial Film	Shuyu Kong
Memory and Amnesia: An Interview with Korean Director Seong-Wook Moon	Jae-Woong Kwon and Anne Ciecko
Report on Pusan International Film Festival	Frances Gateward and Joelle Collier
Kwang Woo Noh, Coordinator of Korean Film Festival	Jae-Woong Kwon
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	Compiled by John A. Lent

Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2002

ACSS ’02, Jeonju, South Korea: A Report	John A. Lent and Joelle Collier
ACSS ’03: Call for Papers
The Ambivalence of P. Ramlee: Penarek Beca and Bujang Lapok in Perspective	Rohayati Paseng Barnard, Timothy P. Barnard
What You Hear…, What You See… That’s Not All You Get (Filmed Representations of South Asians in the Diaspora)	Monica Ghosh
From Novel to Film: White Badge	Tony Williams
Hou Hsiao-hsien and the Question of a Chinese Style	James Udden
Kirk Wong’s Hong Kong Crimes	Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
Of “Women” and “Relationships” in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Rituporno Ghosh’s Oeuvre	Somdatta Mandal
Hybridity in Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Heterogeneity in a Homogenous Society	Robert Hyland
Critical Reception of Rashomon in the West	Greg M. Smith
The Past, the Present, and the Future (An Interview with Wu Ziniu)	Haili Kong
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2002

ASIAN CINEMA AND GLOBALIZATION — A SYMPOSIUM edited by Ali Muhammadi
Introductions
The Impact of Globalization on Iranian Cinema	Ali Mohammadi
Hollywood’s Poorer Cousin – Indian Cinema in an Era of Globalization	Daya Kishan Thussu
Pakistani Cinema: Between the Domestic and the Regional	Eric Egan
Impact of Globalization on the Cinema in China	Xu Ying

Beyond Swords and Samurai: Another Look at the Films of Kurosawa	Linda C. Ehrlich
Chunhyang, chunhyang, chunhyang: Poetics of Im Kwan-Taek’s Chunhyang	Jinhee Choi
Transnational Film and the Politics of Becoming: Negotiating East Asian Identity in Hong Kong Night Club and Moonlight Express	Lori D. Hitchcock
Refugees in Love and Life: An Interview with Majid Majidi	Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Mabaroshi: The Danger and Allure of Phantom Light	Keiko McDonald
A “New” Phenomenon of Chinese Cinema: Happy-New-Year Comic Movie	Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan
“Heart to Heart Is Best Type of Art” – Actor-Professor Xu Zhongquan	John A. Lent
Erratum	Narasingha P. Sil
Review Satyajit Ray: In Search of the Modern	Narasingha P. Sil
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China 2001-2002)	Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent
Books on History of Chinese Cinema Published in China (Mainland): 1949-2002	Yuheng Bao, Zhong Dafeng and John A. Lent

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

Erik Barnouw (1908-2001)	David Ehrlich
ACSS 2002 To Convene in Jeonju, Korea, April 2002	John A. Lent
Renaissance of Korean Film Industry	Daiwon Hyun
Formation of Korean Film Industry under Japanese Occupation	Noh, Kwang Woo
Animation in China Yesterday and Today – The Pioneers Speak Out	John A. Lent and Xu Ying
Growing Old with Kurosawa and The Bomb: Japanese Aesthetic Traditions and the American Desire for an Authentic Response	Jerome F. Shapiro
Different from Difference: Revisiting Kurutta ichipeiji	Jonathan E. Abel
Patriarchy and Male Seduction: Satyajit Ray’s Devi Revisited	Narasingha P. Sil
Like Father, Like Son: Yuen Wo-ping’s Iron Monkey and the Evolution of Wong Fei-hung	Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
Michelle Yeoh: Under Eastern Eyes	Tony Williams
Blood Money: Woman’s Desire and Consumption in Ermo	Beth Notar
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Glimpses	John A. Lent
Potpourri	Carol J. Slingo

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

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
Correction
Semerah Padi: A Proposal for a New Nation	William van der Heide
Cinema and Iran: Culture and Politics in the Islamic Republic	Ali Mohammadi, Eric Egan
Coming of Age: Bollywood Productions of the Nineties	Coonoor Kripalani
Neglected “Classical” Periods: Hong Kong and Korean Cinemas of the 1960s	Peter Rist
Satyajit Ray’s Alien: Agantuk	Narasingha P. Sil
“To Live” Beyond Good and Evil	Rujie Wang
Blood Spear, Mt. Fuji: Uchida Tomu’s Conflicted Comeback from Manchuria	Craig Watts
From Saviors to Rapists: G.I.s, Women, and Children in Korean War Films	Hye Seung Chung
Has the Movie Red Corner Driven China into Its Corner?	Faye Zhengxing
Mrinal Sen: “Rambling Thoughts” on Unforgettable Masters, Lost Friends, Enigmatic Ruins and Life	Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Review The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity	Narasingha P. Sil
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent

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

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
The Memory of Labor Oppression in Korean Cinema: The Death of a Young Worker in Single Spark (1995)	Seung Hyun Park
Last of the Great Movie Moguls	Erik Barnouw
Reflexivity in Recent Iranian Cinema: The Case of Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Donato Totaro
Indian Women In The Flesh: From Prose to Screen	Linda Hemphill
Animation Film Production in Beijing	Xu Ying
Crossings: A Transnational Cinematic Text	Tony Williams
Seoul as Cinematic Cityscape: Shiri and the Politico-Aesthetics of Invisibility	David Scott Diffrient
Resisting the Stage: Imaging/Imagining Ruan Lingyu in Stanley Kwan’s Actress	Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
Dead Man Gazing: Posthumous Voyeurism in 12 Storeys, or “Splacing” Singapore’s Official and Unofficial Discourses?	Michael Lee
Keynote address at “Centennial Reflections on Chinese Cinema: A Generational Dialogue”	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Chronicle of Events: 1978-2000	John A. Lent, Wang Renying, and Yuheng Bao
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China)	Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent
Potpourri	Carol J. Slingo
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
Review (a selection of books)	John A. Lent

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

Pioneers of Asian Cinema Studies	John A. Lent
The Writing of Indian Film	Erik Barnouw
The Krishnaswamy Approach: Documentary and Commitment	Linda C. Ehrlich
A Typography of Chinese Film Historiography	Yingjin Zhang
Asian Filmmakers Moving into Hollywood: Genre Regulation and Auteur Aesthetics	Pei-Chi Chung
Structural Transformation of the Korean Film Industry, 1988-1993	Seung Hyun Park
The Opium War in the Movies: History, Politics and Propaganda	Zhiwei Xiao
Assassins and Children: The Mythology of the Lone Wolf and Cub Films	John Pusateri
Eileen Chang, Woman’s Film, and Domestic Shanghai in the 1940s	Poshek Fu
From Xin nüxing to Liren xing: Changing Conceptions of the “New Woman” in Republican Era Chinese Films	Vivian Shen
Hong Kong Cinema, the Boat People, and To Liv(e)	Tony Williams

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF TEACHING ASIAN CINEMA IN AMERICA: A SYMPOSIUM edited by Sheldon H. Lu
Introduction: Teaching Asia Through Film	Sheldon H. Lu
Tapping the Abundant Resources Available to Teach Asia Through Film	John A. Lent
Teaching Japan Through Cinema	Keiko I. McDonald
Problems of Teaching Asian Cinema in a World Film History Course	Marcia Landy
Floating Weeds: Teaching Asian Cinema…Afloat	Lucy Fischer
Cultural Studies and Canons: Asian Cinemas across Disciplines and Institutions	Anne T. Ciecko
Thoughts on Teaching Chinese Cinemas in America	Sheldon H. Lu

Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Exhibitions List	Linda C. Ehrlich

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

Images of Americans in Postwar Japanese Cinema	Keiko I. McDonald
Beijing Bastard, The Sixth Generation Directors, and “Generation-X” in China	Harry H. Kuoshu
Philippine Cinema: An Historical Overview	Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.
A Repetition Compulsion: Discontinuity Editing, Classical Chinese Aesthetics, and Hong Kong’s Culture of Disappearance	Joelle Collier
At One with the Other: An Examination of John Woo’s Vision Climaxing in Face Off	Uma Magal
Cheng Jihua, Pioneer in Chinese Film Studies: Interview I	Vivian Shen
Cheng Jihua and Li Shaobai, Pioneers in Chinese Film Studies: Interview II	John A. Lent
Ritwik Ghatak between the Messianic and the Material	Pravina Cooper
A Scene at the Threshold: Liminality in the Films of Kitano Takeshi	Aaron Gerow

A SATYAJIT RAY SYMPOSIUM
The Curious Case of “The Alien”: Satyajit Ray vs. Steven Spielberg	Somdatta Mandal
Tagore’s Broken Nest vs. Ray’s Charulata: A Critique	Narasingha P. Sil
The Carnivalesque in Satyajit Ray’s Nights and Days in the Forest (1970)	Darius Cooper

Revisiting Sholay a.k.a. Flames Of The Sun	K. Hariharan
Review The Emperor’s Naked Army Marchs on, Yukiyukite Shingun	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China PRC)	Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent
News from China	Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent
Potpourri	Carol J. Slingo

Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 1998

PROCEEDINGS ACSS CONFERENCE ’97 edited by John A. Lent and Suzie Sau-Fong Young
Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
ACSS’97 – Afterword as Preface	Suzie Sau Fong Young
Sixth Biennial Conference	Harriet Blankevoort
Hong Kong
The Irresistible: Hong Kong Movie Once Upon A Time In China Series -- An Extensive Interview with Director/Producer Tsui Hark	Ange Hwang
A City On Fire: Hong Kong Cinema As Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism	Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes
Film Style and Performance: Comedy and Kung Fu From Hong Kong	Greg Dancer
Hong Kong, 1997; Mexico, 1917. Motifs and Historical Perspective	Ken Hall
Modern Identity and Karmic Retribution in Clara Law’s Reincarnations of Golden Lotus	Yomi Braester
Ashes of Time: The Tragedy and Salvation of the Chinese Intelligentsia	Juanita Huan Zhou
Kwan Tak-Hing and the New Generation	Tony Williams
Jackie Chan and the Re-invention of Tradition	Ramie Tateishi
China
Art Film Is Immortal and National Film Lives Forever	Xie Fei (Translated by Chen Xiao Ling)
The Evolution of China’s War Movie in Five Decades: Factors Contributing to Changes, Limits, and Implications	Junhao Hong
“Encountering (China, My) Sorrow”	Suzie Sau Fong Young
Zhang Yimou in Lumière et Compagnie (1995): 52 Seconds x 9 Readings: An Exercise in Over-interpretation	Shelly Kraicer
Japan
Mikio Naruse and the Japanese Women’s Film	Catherine Russell
Ausgraben und Erinnern: Nomida Chodai Eiga and Betrayal on a Railroad Track	Harriet Blankevoort
Yang Kuei-fei: The Film and Legend	Masako Nakagawa
Cross-National Perspectives and Other Countries
The “Shanghai Factor” in Hong Kong Cinema: A Tale of Two Cities in Historical Perspectives	Zhang Zhen
Time, Space, Identity, and the City: Contemporary Urban China and Japan Projected in Film	Eve Gabereau
Depicting the Buddha, Teaching the Dharma	Cynthia Contreras
Indian Cinema Fifty Years After Independence: A Cinema of Ferment	Uma Magal
Popular Dialogues of a “Discreet” Nature	Denise Tang
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Additional Chinese Cinema Periodicals	Xu Ying
Potpourri	Carol J. Slingo
Exhibitions List	Linda C. Ehrlich

Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1998

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
Wu Yonggang and the Ambivalence in the Chinese Experience of Modernity: A Study of His Three Films of the Mid-1930s	Zhiwei Xiao
The Point of View in Shanghai Triad	Faye Zhengxing
Apocalyptic Chaos in Tiger Cage	Tony Williams
Hong Kong Cinema in Korea: Its Prosperity and Decay	Daiwon Hyun
Singapore Film Fever: Report on the Tenth Singapore International Film Festival, April 1997	Gina Marchetti
Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, and The Home and the World: Indian Nationalist History and Colonial/Postcolonial Perspectives in Film and Fiction	Gautam Kundu
The Production of Modernity in Japanese National Cinema: Shochiku Kamata Style in the 1920s and 1930s	Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Film Review Shall We Dance? (Shal we dansu, Japan, 1996. Directed by Suo Masayuki)	Linda C. Ehrlich
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China)	Yuheng Bao and John A. Lent
China’ s Film: Happenings, Discussions, and Resources	John A. Lent and Yuheng Bao
Minutes, ACSS Business Meeting, 1997

Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 1997

Mapping Interiors: An Interview with Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Suranjan Ganguly
Schindler’s List in Malaysia: Anti-Semitism or National Politics?	Timothy R. White & Emmett Winn
Transnationalization As Affected from Within: Contestation of the Nation-Space in Lino Brocka’s Jaguar	Rolando B. Tolentino
From Wenmingxi (Civilized Play) to Yingxi (Shadowplay): The Foundation of Shanghai Film Industry in the 1920s	Dafeng Zhong, Zhen Zhang, & Yingjin Zhang
Novella on Screen: Kawabata’s The Izu Dancer and Gosha’s Film Version (1932)	Keiko I. McDonald
The Politics of Horror: The Aswang in Film	Felicidad C. Lim
Eve in Calcutta: The Indianization of a Movie Madwoman	Gretchen D. Bisplinghoff & Carol J. Slingo
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema (Published in China)	Yuheng Bao & John A. Lent
Potpourri	Carol J. Slingo
Exhibitions, January-April, 1997	Linda C. Ehrlich
Review Picturing Japaneseness	Linda C. Ehrlich
ACSS ’97: Program	Suzie Sau-Fong Young

Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 1996/1997

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
ACSS ’97 Conference	Suzie Sau-Fong Young
Tales from Peripheries: Why Write about Japanese Movies?	J. L. Anderson
Problems with the Treatment of Hong Kong Cinema as Camp	Julian Stringer
Anti-Maoist Gender: Hibiscus 53 Town’s Naturalization of a Dengist Sex/Gender/Kinship System	Andrew Kipnis
A Study of Asian Tradition in Satyajit Ray’s The World of Apu	Victor Or
Cinematic Sexualities: The Two Faces of Abe Sada in Japanese “Poruno” Film	Christine Marran
Teach for a While, Direct for a While: An Interview with Xie Fei	John A. Lent
Symbolism Through Zhang Yimou’s Subversive Lens in His Early Films	Haili Kong
The Makings of a Passion: 40 Years of Living with the World of Chinese Films	Régis Bergeron
Recent Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Review Seoul Stirring: 5 Korean Directors	Julian Stringer
Symposium of Film Collections in Asia Official Report	Yuheng Bao
Potpourri	Carol Slingo

Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1996

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
Wandering Fool: Tora-san and the Comic Traveler	Linda Ehrlich
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Puppetmaster: The Poetics of Landscape	Nick Browne
National Cinema and Film Culture in Kazakhstan	Greg Waller
Dracula’s Panties: Notes on Watching Indian Videos	Carol Slingo
Short Story into Action: Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953): Naruse’s Transposition of the World of Muro onto the Screen	Keiko I. McDonald
Lino Brocka as Filmmaker, Dissident, and Constitutional Commissioner	John A. Lent
Ban(g)! Ban(g)! Dangerous Encounter -- 1st Kind: Writing with Censorship	Tan See Kam
Inamura Jane: Keisuke Kuwata and the Japanese Popular Consciousness	Yasue Kuwahara
Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern: Contextual Analysis of Film Through a Confucian/Feminist Matrix	Joann Lee
Bibliography of Recent Sources on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Potpourri	Carol Slingo

Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1995

Editor’s Note	John A. Lent
The Japanese Film: A Personal View – 1947-1995	Donald Richie
“No Place for a White Man”: United Artists’ Far East Department, 1922-1929	Michael Walsh
The Dream Palaces of Shanghai: American Films in China’s Largest Metropolis Prior to 1949	Marie Cambon
The Shinkokugeki and the Zenshinza: Western Representational Realism and the Japanese Period Film	S. A. Thornton
The Search for a Malaysian Cinema: Between U-Wei, Shuhaimi, Yusof and LPFM	Fuziah Kartini Hassan Basri and Raja Ahmad Alauddin
On Zhang Yimou’s “Golden Touch”: A Comparison between “Judou” and “The Last Emperor”	Faye Zhengxing
Lousy Films Had To Come First – Im Kwon-taek, Korean Director	John A. Lent
Subjective Culture and History: The Ethnographic Cinema of Wong Kar-wai	Curtis K. Tsui
The Globalization of Cinema: A Reverse Angle	Uma Magal
Potpourri	John A. Lent
Reviews	Lino Brocka: The Artist and His Times (Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.) Philippine Film. Vol. VIII, CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.) Shared Differences: Multicultural Media and Practical Pedagogy (Edmond Chibeau) New Chinese Cinema (Julian Stringer)

Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1995

From the Editor: Alive and Kicking	John A. Lent
Rereading Cultural Significance of Taiwan’s Cinema in the 1990’s	Lee Tain-Dow
The Voice of Feminine Madness in Zhang Yimou’s Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua (Raise the Red Lantern)	Suzie Young-Sau Fong
Hindu Neo-Nationalism and the Spectacle of Masculinity and Violence: The Case of Angaar	Jyotsna Kapur
Publications on Asian Cinema	John A. Lent
Films About Tibet	Cynthia Contreras
Anime Resources	John A. Lent
Le Cinema d’Asie en France (et en Europe) en 1994	Régis Bergeron
Reviews	New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics (Steve Fore) Threads of Life: Hemp and Gender in a Hmong Village (Linda Ehrlich) Song of the Bicycle (D. E. Perushek) On Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Radha Subramanyam)
Minutes, ACSS, Athens, Ohio, November 5, 1994	Raoul Kulberg, Cynthia Contreras, and John A. Lent
Efforts To Launch Canadian Branch ACSS
Mira Binford’s Diamonds in the Snow Reveals Holocaust Through a Child’s Eyes