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 CINEMA AND HISTORY

Editor’s Note

Race: The Political Unconscious in American Film

by Nick Browne

Female Bodies and Women’s Past-times, 1890-1920

by Patricia Mellencamp

Memories and Things Past: History and Two Biographical Flashback Films

by Charles Maland

Tales of Kageyama

by Freda Freiberg

Decentering History: Some Versions of Bombay Cinema

by Vijay Mishra

The Ronggeng Dancer: Another Paradigm for Erotic Spectacle in Cinema

by David Hanan

Book Reviews