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Cinema in Asia began as a monumental adventure. It married fantasy and festivity, curiosity and fun; everywhere it was an awe-inspiring social event. It took no time for it to become a political tool to be discovered…. At the same time, it matured into an unrivalled form of artistic expression. And in all its multiple shapes that this book pays homage to the cinemas of Asia… in the many layers of life it unveils, in yet fundamental links that go beyond what is specific to every culture and in the intrinsic power of the cinematic art itself… |
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| Edited by: Aruna Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar, Rashmi Doraiswamy |
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| Published by Macmillan India / 2002 / INR 765 |
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Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters – together with Yasugiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa – of Japanese cinema. This book is a definitive guide to the life and work of one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
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Kenji Mizoguchi and the art of Japanese cinema tells the full story of this famously perfectionist, even tyrannical director. Mizoguchi’s key films, cinematographic techniques and his social and aesthetic concerns are all discussed and set in the context of Japan’s changing popular and political culture. |
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| By: Tadao Sato |
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Published by: Berg (An imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd)
2008 / Hardback: £55.00 (INR 3,905.00) Paperback: £17.99 (INR 1,277) |
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Winner of the Golden Kite Award by the Vietnamese Cinema Association for Best Film Research and Criticism book in 2005, Ngo Phuong Lan’s Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema is the first Vietnamese film book to be translated and published in Vietnam. |
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Here the future of Vietnamese film is discussed, For the cinema to advance into the future the author Ngo Phuong Lan makes a case for 10 classic Vietnamese films which contain the elements of modernity and nationality, the former which is so crucial for international appeal and the latter in maintaining national identity. |
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This book covers the birth of Vietnamese film in 1953 following the country’s declaration of independence in 1945. It looks at the key policies that shaped the film industry including the significant Doi Moi (Renewal) period of 1986 which opened Vietnamese cinema to a new spirit of creativity and experimentation. |
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This book is also the first book to be published by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC). It is an effort to preserve and promote critical local works in the literature of world cinema. |
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| By: Ngo Phuong Lan; Edited by: Aruna Vasudev . Philip Cheah |
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| Published by: NETPAC |
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| 2007 / Paperback: USD 11 (INR 514.00) |
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In Pathiraja’s films, visual, narrative and ideological motifs intertwine in a complex and fascinating manner. He learnt the language of cinema from the films of Peries and others, but also recongnised their socio-political limitations in a country which was heading for a period of deep turmoil. He had studied the radical activist filmmaking of Europeans such as Godard, the Third Cinema of Solanas, Littin and Rocha, and South Asians like Sen and Ghatak. So he was prepared with the tools for a critical film practice when he made his first feature film, One League of Sky in 1974. He moved away from bourgeois realism and paved the way for a socially engaged and critically humanist cinema.
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| By: Sivamohan Sumathy, Robert Crusz, Ashley Ratnavibhushana |
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Published by: NETPAC
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2009 / Hardback: £55.00 (INR 3,905.00), Paperback: £17.99 (INR 1,277)
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NETPAC Conference 2010 |
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The Culture & Politics of Asian Cinema |
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New Delhi 18-22 August 2010 |
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NETPAC, Asia’s premiere organization for promoting Asian cinema, turns 20 this year. These years have seen an appreciable growth in the cinemas of this region. To some extent, NETPAC has been instrumental in fostering this change. We now look at the road Asian cinema has travelled and at NETPAC’s role in this journey. As a mark of its commitment to Asian cinema, a four-day Conference has been convened to focus on its future concerns: the need to recognize and respect diversity in defining cinema; and its evolving identity in the age of globalism. |
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The NETPAC 2010 Conference will gather together distinguished film personalities - historians, festival organisers, filmmakers, critics, Funding and Promotional organisations, national film bodies, film scholars and film students to discuss what can actively and pedagogically be done to consolidate the gains Asian cinema has made. |
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