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by Martin Ramstedt
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
This book provides new data and perspectives on the development of 'world religion' in post-colonial societies through an analysis of the development of 'Hinduism' in various parts of Indonesia from the early twentieth century to the present. This development has been largely driven by the religious...
Monarchy in South East Asia
The Faces of Tradition in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This title is the first study to relate the history and contemporary role of the South East Asian monarchy to the politics of the region today. Comprehensive & up-to-date, Monarchy in South East Asia features an historical and political overview of
*Cambodia
*Thailand
*Malaysia
*Brunei
*Indonesia
*Laos
*as...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry...
Why I Am so Proud to Be a Black Man
The Many Reasons to Uplift and Celebrate Our Uniqueness in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In the beginning, when God created the black man, He gave all his wisdom to his first creations without boundaries and fears. Unfortunately, for far too long, black men have been portrayed negatively in our society and by the daily rhetoric that surrounds us. In their comprehensive study compiled...
The Kaiju Film
A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the “big monsters stomping on cities” motif. Since the seminal King Kong 1933) and the archetypal Godzilla (1954), kaiju has mined the subject matter of science run amok, militarism, capitalism,...
Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
The Yakeato Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of...
The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th...
by Abé Markus Nornes, Aaron Gerow
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 65
The Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema. Among the nations of the world, Japan has enjoyed an impressively lively...
Giant Creatures in Our World
Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the kaiju or "strange creature" film has become an iconic element of both Japanese and American pop culture. From homage to parody to advertising, references to Godzilla—and to a lesser extent Gamera, Rodan, Ultraman and others—abound...
Writing Okinawa
Narrative acts of identity and resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...
Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema
Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based. Two central questions in relation to these post-war Japanese film genres and historical consciousness are addressed:...
by Tsurumi
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Broderick
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.