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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

Product Description: India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780415677745 | Routledge, March 15, 2013, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach.

From Aan to Lagaan and Beyond: A Guide to the Study of Indian Cinema

By Wimal Dissanayake

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9781858565040 | Trentham Books Ltd, March 31, 2012, cover price $41.95

Popular Culture in a Globalised India

Product Description: As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally resonant cultural resources...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780415476676 | 1 edition (Routledge, January 29, 2009), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage.

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9780203884065 | Routledge, December 17, 2008, cover price $42.95

Enabling Traditions: Four Sinhala Cultural Intellectuals

Product Description: At a time when the world of Sinhala arts and letters has been ignored or misrepresented in the West, it is timely that this insightful book has been published. Professor Wimal Dissanayake has selected four of the leading cultural intellectuals in the country (Munidasa Cumaratunga, Martin Wickramasinghe, Ederiweera Sarachchandra and Gunadasa Amarasekera) to examine critically...read more

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9781858563961 | Trentham Books Ltd, December 30, 2006, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: At a time when the world of Sinhala arts and letters has been ignored or misrepresented in the West, it is timely that this insightful book has been published.

Melodrama And Asian Cinema

Product Description: Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780521414654 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries.

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9780521612081 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 27, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries.

Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology

Product Description: Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions. Contains forty-four contemporary essays that introduce and pluralize cultural studies work from diverse locales and intellectual traditions Covers regions the world over, including Asia, Europe, and Africa Organizes material around key themes such as race and ethnicity, transnationalism, gender and sexual cultures, media production and consumption, urban life, popular practices, techno-cultures, and visual cultures Includes expert introductions from an international panel of editors, and facilitates customization of content for course us...read more

By Ackbar Abbas (editor), M. A. Abbas (editor), Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and John Nguyet Erni (editor)

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9780631236238 | Blackwell Pub, November 5, 2004, cover price $144.95 | About this edition: Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions.

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9780631236245 | Blackwell Pub, November 5, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions.

Product Description: The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake and K. Moti Gokulsing

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9781858563299 | New rev edition (Trentham Books Ltd, July 1, 2004), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora.

9781858560960 | Trentham Books Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: India produces more films than any other country but its popular cinema has remained peripheral to western cinema buffs.

Rethinking Third Cinema

Product Description: This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and Anthony R. Guneratne (editor)

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9780415213530 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations.

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9780415213547 | Routledge, August 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations.

Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time

Product Description: Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake and Dorothy Wong

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9789622095847 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films.

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9789622095854 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films.

Sights of Contestation: Localism, Globalism and Cultural Production in Asia and the Pacific

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By Wimal Dissanayake (editor), Kwok-Kan Tam (editor) and Yip Terry Siu-Han (editor)

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9789622018693 | Chinese Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $28.00

Transnational Asia Pacific: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere

Product Description: This timely collection provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region. Geographically, this vast territory encompasses Japan, the newly industrialized states of East Asia and China, the Southeast Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, and the Pacific coast of North America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor), Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (editor) and Larry E. Smith (editor)

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9780252024924 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: This timely collection provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region.

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9780252068096 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This timely collection provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region.

A Place of One's Own: Stories of Self in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore

Product Description: This unique collection of translations of Chinese stories explores the manifestations of "self" and the impact of place upon Chinese identity, found both on the mainland and in other Chinese communities such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor), Kwok-Kan Tam (editor) and Yip Terry Siu-Han (editor)

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9780195916584 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This unique collection of translations of Chinese stories explores the manifestations of "self" and the impact of place upon Chinese identity, found both on the mainland and in other Chinese communities such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

New Chinese Cinema

Product Description: Focusing on the work of six directors --Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang; Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang; and Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan--New Chinese Cinema discusses the themes and stylistic characteristics of the new cinema...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wimal Dissanayake and Kwok-Kan Tam

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9780195906073 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Focusing on the work of six directors --Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang; Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang; and Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan--New Chinese Cinema discusses the themes and stylistic characteristics of the new cinema.

Self As Image in Asian Theory and Practice

Product Description: This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures. The authors examine the relationship between self and image and its significance in attaining a deeper knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Roger T. Ames (editor), Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and Thomas P. Kasulis (editor)

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9780791427255 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures.

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9780791427262 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures.

Self and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Enquiry

By Roger T. Ames (editor) and Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780791430316 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $57.50

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9780791430323 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $29.95

Narratives of Agency: Self-Making in China, India, and Japan

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780816626564 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $65.95

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9780816626571 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $26.50

Global Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

Product Description: This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and Rob Wilson (editor)

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9780822317029 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production.

Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema

Product Description: As political barriers crumble, Asian cinema is increasingly attracting the attention of film critics, film scholars, and specialists in cultural studies. The relationship among cinema, nationhood, and history is as complex as it is fascinating, bringing us face to face with questions of power, ideology, truth, coloniality, post-coloniality, and representation...read more

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9780253318046 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: As political barriers crumble, Asian cinema is increasingly attracting the attention of film critics, film scholars, and specialists in cultural studies.

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9780253208958 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: ".

Self As Person in Asian Theory and Practice

By Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake and Thomas P. Kasulis

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9780791417232 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $60.50

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9780791417249 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $31.95

Self and Colonial Desire: Travel Writings of V.S. Naipaul

By Wimal Dissanayake and Carmen Wickramagamage

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9780820419756 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $57.95

Self As Body in Asian Theory and Practice

By Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and Thomas P. Kasulis

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9780791410790 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $51.50

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9780791410806 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $23.50

Sholay, a Cultural Reading

Study of feature films in India, in particular, the Hindi film Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy.

By Wimal Dissanayake

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9788122403947 | South Asia Books, April 1, 1992, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Study of feature films in India, in particular, the Hindi film Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy.

The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories

Most translated from various Indian languages.

By Stephen Alter (editor) and Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780140117752 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Most translated from various Indian languages.

Literary History, Narrative, and Culture: Selected Conference Papers

By Steven Bradbury (editor) and Wimal Dissanayake

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