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:

Approaching Japanese Melodrama

by Joseph A. Murphy

Adapting (to) the Margins: Hot Summer Winds and the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto

by Robert M. Payne

Korean Cinema and the New Realism: Text and Context

by Isolde Standish

Where Is "The Nation"?: Public Discourse, the Body, and Visual Display

by Jane C. Desmond

The Tourist / Traveler Gaze: Betolucci and Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky

by Yosefa Loshitzky

Book Reviews