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:

Shifting Paradigms in the Australian Historical Film

by Stephen Crofts

Hollywood Images of the Pacific

by Glenn K. S. Man

The Illusionary Island: Hollywood’s Pacific Place

by Raymond F. Betts

Context and The Makioka Sisters

by Markus Nornes

The Rhetoric of Mirror, Shadow, and Moon: Samsara and the Problem of Representation of Self in China

by Yuejin Wang

"Lynching" as Entertainment: Race and Gender in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart

by Shaorn Wills

Colonialism in the Hindu Caste System: Satyajit Ray’s Sadgat (Deliverance)

by Darius Cooper

A Talk with Shaji

by D. William Davis

Book Reviews