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Moving between worlds: Performance, the scene of empathy and flexible identity in Infernal Affairs 在世界之间穿梭：《无间道》中的表演、移情场景和灵活身份

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00068_1

Sebastian Byrne

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Documenting Chinese homecomings: Reflexive aesthetics and cinematic memories in Four Springs (2017) and The Reunions (2020) 记录中国人的回家：四个春天》（2017）和《团圆》（2020）中的反思美学与电影记忆

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00072_1

Zhaoyu Zhu

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How Do We Look? Resisting Visual Biopolitics, Fatimah Tobing Rony (2022) 我们怎么看？抵制视觉生物政治学》，法蒂玛-托宾-罗尼（2022年）

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00073_5

Debarati Byabartta

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The revolutionary subject: Masao Adachi and Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War 革命主体：足立正夫与红军/人阵：世界大战宣言

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00071_1

Seth A. Wilder

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Sisworo Gautama Putra’s Primitives and the paradox of savagery 西斯沃罗-高塔玛-普特拉的《原始人》与野蛮的悖论

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00069_1

David Kelly

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‘Luso-orientalism’: Portuguese Asian ‘imagined communities’ in Estado Novo film propaganda 葡萄牙-东方主义"：新国家计划电影宣传中的葡萄牙亚裔 "想象中的社区

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00070_1

Maria do Carmo Piçarra

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Legend of The Chinese Boxer: Jimmy Wang Yu’s cosmopolitan wuxia pian 中国拳击手传奇：王的武侠片

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00061_1

Liam Ball

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Queer voice(over): Reassembling female desire in Chinese cinema 酷音(结束):中国电影中的女性欲望重组

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00065_1

Xuefei Ma

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In children’s eyes: Historical and ethnographic value of child perspectives in 1960s South Korean cinema 儿童眼中:1960年代韩国电影中儿童视角的历史与民族志价值

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00060_1

Jinsoo An

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Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Lilian Chee and Edna Lim (eds) (2018) 《亚洲电影与空间的使用:跨学科的视角》，朱丽莲、林德娜主编，2018

Asian Cinema Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/ac_00066_5

P. Chow

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