The first film journal devoted to the Asia-Pacific region as a whole provides a forum in which Asian and Western cinemas can be introduced to and appreciated by a world-wide audience.

Contents:

SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE CITY AND CINEMA

Editor’s Note

Cities on the Edge of Time: The Urban Science Fiction Film

by Vivian Sobchack

Future Noir: Contemporary Representations of Visionary Cities

by Janet Staiger

Last Seen in the Streets of Modernism

by Patricia Mellencamp

Attitudes Toward Tokyo on Film

by Donald Richie

Chinese Urban Cinema: Hyper-realism Versus Absurdism

by Chris Berry

The Rural Base of an Urban Phenomenon

by Chidana Das Gupta

Seoul in Korean Cinema

by Bae Chang-Ho

A tale of Two Cities: Cultural Polyphony and Ethnic Transformation

by Robert Stam

Cities and Cinema: A Selective Filmography

Book Reviews