Power Misses II : Cinema, Asian and Modern / David E. James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, David E., 1920- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

w.

Contents:

Cover

POWER MISSES II CINEMA,ASIANANDMODERN

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1 Im Kwon-taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 8 L.A.'s Hipster Cinema

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

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

Chapter 11 Letter to Paul Arthur (Letter With Endnotes)

Chapter 12 Agricultural Revelation: Land, Labor, and Voice in Three Films About Laxton

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780861969777

0861969774

OCLC:

1248897732