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2024 FSEM 1010-05: Examining East Asian Politics Through the Lens of Movies (Prof. Zhang): HamCAT for Discovery

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  • Motion Pictures--Political Aspects--East Asia
  • Motion Pictures--China--History
  • Politics in Motion Pictures
  • Economic Development
  • Social Policies and Politics
  • Asia--Politics and Government

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Types of Content you will Find in HamCAT

Ebooks
 

Cheung, Ruby. New Hong Kong cinema : transitions to becoming Chinese in 21st-century East Asia. Berghahn Books, 2016.
Noesselt, Nele. Visualized Narratives : Signs, Symbols and Political Mythology in East Asia, Europe and the US. 1st edition., Tectum Verlag, 2021.
Paquet, Darcy. New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Taylor-Jones, Kate. Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and Its Legacy. 1st ed., Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
White, Daniel. Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety. Stanford University Press, 2022.
Yoo, Hyon Joo. Cinema at the Crossroads Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema. Lexington Books, 2012.
Zhu, Ying, and Stanley Rosen. Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong University Press, 2010.

Print Books

Hansson, Eva, and Meredith L. Weiss. Political Participation in Asia: Defining and Deploying Political Space. 1st ed., vol. 62, Routledge, 2018, Order from Another Library via Interlibray Loan

Hu, Jubin. Projecting A Nation: Chinese National Cinema Before 1949. Hong Kong University Press, 2003. Order from Another Library via Interlibray Loan

Oh, John Kie-chiang. Korean Politics : the Quest for Democratization and Economic Development. Cornell University Press, 1999. Hamline Bush Library JQ1729.A15 O43 1999

Zhou, Kate Xiao, et al. Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?: Local and National Perspectives. Routledge, 2014, 
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Articles (magazine, newspaper, journals)

Diamant, Neil J. “Conspicuous Silence: Veterans and the Depoliticization of War Memory in China.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, 2011, pp. 431–61, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000072.

Hieyoon Kim. “On 1987: South Korean Cinema in the Era of Re-Democratization.” Korea Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, 2020, pp. 273–94, https://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2020.60.3.273.

Lo, Kwai-Cheung. “A Borderline Case: Ethnic Politics and Gangster Films in Post-1997 Hong Kong.” Postcolonial Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, 2007, pp. 431–46, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790701621425.

Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu. Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories. University of Michigan Press, 2018, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt22727c7.

Zhang, Jie. “The Geopolitics of ‘Being Lost’ (Jiong) in China’s Most Popular Movie Franchise.” ASIANetwork Exchange, vol. 28, no. 1, 2022, pp. 12-, https://doi.org/10.16995/ane.8149.
 

Video and Audio resources

Chen, Weijun, and Don Edkins. Why democracy? Please vote for me. Directed by Weijun Chen, The Cinema Guild, 2007.

Dong-won, Kim. The 6 Days Struggle at Myong Cathedral. Directed by Kim Dong-won, Cinema DAL, 1AD.

 Fu, Yue. Dialogue Between Blue & Green. CNEX Studio Corporation, 2012.

 

Theses and Dissertations

Tsai, Stefan B. The Transcendence of Taiwanese Identity: A Study of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Films. 2016. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Yao, Linan. Popular Propaganda in Pop Culture: How China Sells Its Ideology. 2023. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.