Asian cinemas : a reader and guide / edited by Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006. - x, 473 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-464) and indexes.

Introduction - Part I: Approaching asian cinemas -- Section 1: Orientalism and Japanese cinema - Section 2: Colonial encounters, post-colonial critism and Hong Kong cinema - Section 3: Cross-cultural criticism and Chinese cinema -- Part II: Frameworks of study: Section 4: National cinema: the case of Turkey - Section 5: Genre criticism and popular indian cinema - Section 6: Questions of authorship and Taiwanese cinema - Section 7: Stardom: the case of Bruce Lee - Bibliography - Index of films/ TV programmes - Index of key terms.

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Motion pictures--Asia.

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