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Reel Asian Asian Canada on screen
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Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspor...
Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival fosters the exchange of cultural and artistic ideals between East and West, provides a public forum for homegrown Asian media artists and their work and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada. In Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, contributors, many of them filmmakers, examine East and Southeast Asian Canadian contributions to independent film
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- Creator
- edited by Elaine Chang
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Toronto : Coach House Books, c2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (478 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781770561878, 9781770561861, 1770561862, 1770561870, 1552451925, 9781552451922
- OCLC
- ocn154690280, ocn782873474
- Co-published by the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hyphe-Nation; or, Screening 'Asian Canada'; Overview: Looking Back and Looking Forward; Tracking Shots: Mapping the Asian Canadian Filmscape; Eating Chinese; Stills Part I; Rice Bowl Diaries; F-Words; Memory, Again; Vancouver Asian: West Coast Film Cultures, on the Rim and at the end of the Line; The King of Main: Unplugged; 'Let your Fingers do the Walking': Rereading HO TAM's the Yellow Pages; Stills Part II; Men and Monsters; Albertasia: Asian Canadian Films on the Prairies; Home Misses You
- Searching for the White-Haired Girl Letters from Seoul; Adventures in Celluloid Gold Mountain; Stills Part III; Queer Hongcouver and Other Fictions; Black Magic Buddhism; Cinematic Imag(in)ings of the Japanese Canadian Internment; Chinatown Tomb Raider: Reflections on Kung fu Fridays; La Chinoise; or, 'the other'; Reel Asian, then and Now; Snapshots; Stills Part IV; Resources; Contributors; Artists' Works; Distributor Contact Information; Image and Photo Credits; Appendix