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 MELODRAMA AND CINEMA

Editor’s Note

Melodrama / Subjectivity / Ideology: The Relevance of Western Melodrama Theories to Recent Chinese Cinema

by E. Ann Kaplan

Melodrama, Postmodernism, and the Japanese Cinema

by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Negotiating the Transition to Capitalism: The Case of Andaz

by Paul Willemen

The Politics of Melodrama in Indonesian Cinema

by Krishna Sen

Melodrama as It (Dis)appears in Australian Film

by Susan Dermody

Filming "New Seoul": Melodramatic Constructions of the Subject in Spinning Wheel and First Son

by Rob Wilson

Psyches, Ideologies, and Melodrama: The United States and Japan

by Maureen Turim