Beschreibung:
These critical essays examine East Asian culture through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural lens. Readings of film, television, and visual and literary texts reveal the historical condition as well as the contemporary impulses driving East Asian culture today. We feel the muted tension in a rural South Korean village; we walk down the bustling st
Introduction -- General Nogi's Wife -- Against Metaphor -- Writing Erratic Desire -- Two Murakamis and Marcel Proust -- The Fractured Cinema of North Korea -- New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Contemporary China -- Image, Information, Commodity -- Cinema and the Public Sphere -- Sexual DisOrientations -- Looking Backward in the Age of Global Capital