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:

Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre

by Hamid Naficy

Ritual, History, and the Films of Zhang Yimou

by Donald S. Sutton

Configuring the Modern Space: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and Its Politics

by Xiobing Tang

Forest of Bliss: Film and Anthropology

by Ákos Östör

"Mine Is the Cinema of Strong Survivors": An Interview with Gautam Ghose

by Manas Ray