000			01582nam a2200193Ia 4500
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020			_a9781856697361
082			_aARCH _bHOP
100			_aHopkins, Owen
245		0	_aReading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon
260			_a. _bRoutledge _c2018
300			_a268p.;ill. _c15.19 x 1.45 x 22.91 cm
504			_aAsian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia. Concentrating on the performative potential of cinematic space in Asian films, the contributors discuss how space (re)constructs forms of identities and meanings across a range of cinematic practices. Cities, landscapes, buildings and interiors actively shape cinematic performances of such identities and their significances. The essays are structured around the spatial themes of ephemeral, imagined and contested spaces. They deal with struggles for identity, belonging, autonomy and mobility within different national and transnational contexts across East, Southeast and parts of South Asia in particular, which are complicated by micropolitics and subcultures, and by the interventions and interests of global lobbies.
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aAsian Cinema
650			_aCinema
700			_aChee, Lilian _eEditor
942			_cBKS
999			_c119 _d119