This edited volume seeks to evaluate the complex tensions between democratic renewal and regression by focusing on the activist efforts by Indonesian filmmakers to maintain and open spaces for creative experimentation, critical reflection and social diversity.
This book examines how sport and leisure have the capacity to impact on our understanding and experience of culture, protest, and social change.
The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema provides insights into the Chinese film industry and popular cinema in the past two decades (with a major focus on the films produced since the mid-2010s).
This collection of essays argues that reproductive justice—currently undermined by criminalized abortion, racial disparities in mortality, and... Læs mere
This book utilizes empirically rich case studies explore the nature, regulation and evolution of internet cultural products, vernacular internet cultures and subcultural online communities which have been deemed ‘vulgar’ by the Chinese state, official media and policy documents.
Focussing on a series of films produced during the administration of disgraced and then pardoned President Park Geun-hye (2013–2017), this book examines South Korea’s relationship with Japan and how this relationship continues to be negotiated through films and politics.
Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation offers a compelling exploration of borderlands as dynamic cultural spaces.
This book is the culmination of advanced historical and sociological fieldwork in China, Japan and France.
First full-length book, anthology, and annotated bibliography to explore the industrial film and its remarkable history.
In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most... Læs mere
This book delves into the archaeological idea of prehistory, the anthropology of literacy,... Læs mere
The Handbook of Tourism and Hospitality in Japan explains how Japanese nature, society, and culture are related to essential elements of tourism, hospitality, and tourism resources.