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:

The Artist’s Desire: Reflections on the Films of Mizoguchi Kenji

by Linda C. Ehrlich

Satyajit Ray’s Secret Guide to Exquisite Murders: Creativity, Social Criticism, and the Partitioning of the Self

by Ashis Nandy

Ideology of the Body in Red Sorghum: National Allegory, National Roots, and Third Cinema

by Yingjin Zhang

Vietnam and Melodramatic Representation

by Andrew Martin

Melodrama, Temporality, Recognition: American and Russian Silent Cinema

by Mary Ann Doane

The Romance of Maoriland: Ethnography and Tourism in New Zealand Films

by Martin Blythe

Man and Revolutionary Crisis in Indonesian Films

by Salim Said

Book Reviews