Film/Art

The Korean Vernacular Story

Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing Si Nae Park

Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular literary form (yadam), anonymously and unofficially circulating tales. She focuses on the collection Repeatedly Recited Stories of the East, which was written in a new medium in which Literary Sinitic is hybridized with the vernacular realities of Chosŏn society.

$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19542-3 2020 328 pages 5 illus. Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink

The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India Cezary Galewicz

This book examines the unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda. It tries to understand how emerging regional cultures created conditions for, inspired, and accommodated differently configured projects of bringing out printed editions of Vedic texts.

$50.00 / £42.00 paper 978-83-2334-391-2 2020 306 pages

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Mingjia and Related Texts

Essentials in the Understanding of the Development of Pre-Qin Philosophy Translated by Ian Johnston and Wang Ping

The Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers living between the sixth and third centuries BCE whose identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues, particularly involving the correct use of names. This is a comprehensive work on this school of thought.

$80.00 cloth 978-962-996-777-2 2020 1184 pages

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS

The Hindi Canon

Intellectuals, Processes, Criticism Mrityunjay Tripathi Translated by Shad Naved

This book presents a systematic but critical account of the beginnings, development, and history of the process of canonization in Hindi via such exemplary figures as George Grierson, Garcin de Tassy, Ramchandra Shukla, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Muktibodh, Namwar Singh, and Nirmal Verma, among others. It proposes an intellectual history of Hindi criticism in the twentieth century, which today faces the challenges of a decanonization move in the form of feminist and Dalit thought.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-81-934015-9-0 2019 200 pages

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Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949

Christopher Rea

Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18813-5 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18812-8 May 2021 368 pages 139 illus.

Bombay Hustle

Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee

Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic history of early Bombay cinema and its consolidation in the 1930s. Bombay Hustle provides vital insight into practices of modernity and political, social, and technological change in late colonial India.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19615-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19614-7 2020 288 pages 66 illus.

FILM AND CULTURE SERIES

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career. These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the meaning of citizenship, moving his studio to Lesbos to be on the front lines of the migrant crisis, and how to make art.

$19.95 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-19739-7 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19738-0 2020 224 pages

What Is Japanese Cinema?

A History Yomota Inuhiko

Translated by Philip Kaffen

What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19163-0 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19162-3 2019 248 pages 36 illus.

Perpetrator Cinema

Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary Raya Morag

Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Raya Morag analyzes how post–Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18509-7 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18508-0 2020 312 pages 20 illus.

WALLFLOWER PRESS

Nagarik

Volume 1 Edited by Ira Bhaskar Translated by Rani Ray

Set in Calcutta in the aftermath of Partition, Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik (released in 1977 after Ghatak’s death in 1976) chronicles the struggles of a refugee family from East Bengal as they desperately strive to survive in a metropolis that is unable to address the necessities of thousands of people pouring in from across the border.

$14.00 / £11.99 cloth 978-81-9-412604-1 June 2021 88 pages 8 illus.

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History of Art in Japan

Tsuji Nobuo Translated by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere

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In this book, Tsuji Nobuo, the leading authority on Japanese art history, tells the fascinating story of the country’s exceptional cultural heritage. He sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. History of Art in Japan discusses works ranging from the Jōmon period to contemporary art, from earthenware figurines dated to 13,000 BCE to manga, anime, and modern subcultures.

$34.95 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19341-2 2019 492 pages 402 illus. Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall

(like a screw in the night) Ari Sitas with Kristy Stone, Greg Dor, and Reza Khota

Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall is a poetic, creative, and sociological take on our contemporary silk roads and hazmat highways. The journey reconstructs a via dolorosa through the excesses and forms of exploitation, discrimination, and suffering.

$50.00 / £42.00 cloth 978-81-941260-3-4 July 2020 120 pages

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