Power misses II : cinema, Asian and modern / David E. James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, David E., 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--East Asia--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--East Asia.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--California--Los Angeles--History.

History.

California--Los Angeles.

Asian Americans in motion pictures.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Bloomington, IN : distributed worldwide by Indiana University Press.

Other Title:

Power misses two

Power misses 2

Place of Publication:

New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey Publishing Ltd, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Im Kwon-taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism

ch. 2 Im Kwon-taek's Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema: Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji

ch. 3 The Name of a Desire: Recollections of Socialist Realism in East Asian Art Cinema

ch. 4 Tradition and the Movies: The Working-Class Asian American Avant-Garde in Los Angeles

ch. 5 The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in Los Angeles

ch. 6 Toward a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics/The City as Means of Production: Representations of Los Angeles in Killer of Sheep and Water and Power

ch. 7 Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird

ch. 8 L.A.'s Hipster Cinema

ch. 9 Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption: Ken Jacobs' The Sky Socialist

ch. 10 "Apotheosis Into Tragedy": Catoptrics of Self in Andy Warhol's Lupe

ch. 11 Letter to Paul Arthur (Letter With Endnotes).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

086196747X

9780861967476

OCLC:

1144472969