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Volume 2, No. 1 (ISSN 2158-9666) - May 2013
Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire:
Antinomies in the Colonial Archive
Articles
Introduction
Guest co-editor Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
Guest co-editor Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University
Collaboration, Coproduction, and Code-Switching: Colonial Cinema and Postcolonial Archaeology
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University
One Film, or Many?: The Multiple Texts of the Colonial Korean Film Volunteer
Jaekil Seo, Kookmin University
Subverting Ethnic Hierarchy?: The Film Suicide Squad at the Watchtower and Colonial Korea
Naoki Mizuno, Kyoto University
The Colonial and Transnational Production of Suicide Squad at the Watchtower and Love and the Vow
Naoki Watanabe, Musashi University
Between Ideology and Spectatorship: The “Ethnic Harmony” of the Manchuria Motion Picture Corporation, 1937–1945
Sookyeong Hong, Cornell University
Negotiating Colonial Korean Cinema in the Japanese Empire: From the Silent Era to the Talkies, 1923-1939
Chonghwa Chung, Korean Film Archive (KOFA)
Review Essays
Knowing Society, Cultivating Citizens, and Making the State in Post-Imperial China
Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953, by Janet Y. Chen
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900- 1949, by Tong Lam
Robert Culp, Bard College
Governmentality in Late Colonial Korea?
Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II, by Takashi Fujitani
Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945, by Jun Uchida
Henry Em, Yonsei University
Mortuary Practices, Buddhism, and Family Relations in Japanese Society
Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites, by Satsuki Kawano
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary
Japanese Buddhism, by Mark Rowe
Nam-lin Hur, University of British Columbia
Re-envisioning the Chinese Cityscape: Tabula Rasa and Palimpsest
Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract, by Yomi Braester
Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the People’s Republic, by Chang-tai Hung
Jie Li, Princeton University