Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons
 In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing [... more]
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Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons
Welcome to a new world of cinema: Jonathan Rosenbaum's new volume of film criticism is somewhat different from his earlier collections. Long critical of the hegemony of Hollywood and the way commerical hype has overshadowed criticism, Rosenbaum's new [... more]
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The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
PThis is a lively rendering of one of the great Chinese novels, one that has never been translated before. It gives us an unforgettable insight into the lives of the courtesans and their patrons in the brothel quarter that once flourished in Shanghai. -- [... more]
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Migrations of Gesture
DIVp style= class=MsoNormalDerived from the Latin verb "gerere"-to carry, act, or do-"gesture" has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture/Iaddresses this absence and provides a complex theory [... more]
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A City of Sadness
Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1989, A City of Sadness introduced Western audiences to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. Its director, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is now recognized as one of the most profoundly original auteurs in contemporary cinema. A [... more]
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Millennium Mambo
From the master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien (Flowers Of Shanghai) comes Cannes Special Prize winner Millennium Mambo.Working as a hostess in a trendy bar, a young beauty finds herself mercilessly torn between two men. Set against the intoxicating and [... more]
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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls) and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of [... more]
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Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese ...
This is the first collection of interviews with top filmmakers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. Speaking in Images includes conversations with Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Edward Yang, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, and others. In [... more]
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Cinema Taiwan
Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the [... more]
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Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons
Welcome to a new world of cinema: Jonathan Rosenbaum's new volume of film criticism is somewhat different from his earlier collections. Long critical of the hegemony of Hollywood and the way commerical hype has overshadowed criticism, Rosenbaum's new [... more]
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Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging
David Bordwell is undoubtedly the most productive and influential film historian at work today. His magisterial Figures Traced in Light combines incisive close analyses of compelling filmic artifacts with a painstaking attention to all pertinent research [... more]
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Cinema Taiwan
Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the [... more]
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