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New Hong Kong Cinema

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia

By: Ruby Cheung

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New Hong Kong Cinema

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia

By: Ruby Cheung

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia’s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions” to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which “transitions” are negotiated.

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Berghahn Books

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1782387048

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9781782387046

Hong Kong's New Indie Cinema

By: Ruby Cheung

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Hong Kong's New Indie Cinema

By: Ruby Cheung

This book explores 2010s Hong Kong film industry, focusing on its (presumably) independent sector. Although frequently mentioned in global film industry studies, the term ‘independent film’ does not always carry a clear meaning. Starting with this point, this book studies closely Hong Kong’s new indie cinema of the 2010s from political, economic, social, cultural, and film industrial perspectives, arguing that this indie cinema was vital to the long-term sustainability of the city’s film industry.

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258

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Springer Nature

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3031257677

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9783031257674

What is Europe?

By: Anna Triandafyllidou,Ruby Gropas

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What is Europe?

By: Anna Triandafyllidou,Ruby Gropas

This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of social, cultural, economic, and political meanings. Throughout history, and still today, scholars writing on Europe, and politicians involved in national or European politics, often disagree on the geographic limits of this space and the defining elements of Europe. Europe is, therefore, first and foremost a concept that takes different shapes and meanings depending on the realm of life on which it is applied and on the historical period under investigation. At a given point in time, depending on the perspective we adopt and the situation in which we find ourselves, Europe may represent very different things. Thus, we should better talk about ‘Europes’ in plural. What is Europe? explores these evolving conceptions of Europe from antiquity to the present. This book is all the more timely as Europe responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Britain’s departure from the European Union, financial slump, refugee emergencies, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers a fully updated introduction to European studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is a crucial companion to any undergraduate or graduate course on Europe and the European Union. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000778150

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9781000778151

Technomimetics versus Biomimetics

An Application towards Artificial Intelligence

By: Ruby Srivastava

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Technomimetics versus Biomimetics

An Application towards Artificial Intelligence

By: Ruby Srivastava

Nature has always been an inspiration to humans in terms of using minimum resources to produce maximum results, and in its ability to allow organisms to operate and fit the required environment. There are a number of challenges for humans attempting to mimic nature in this regard given the endless possibilities, such as in using techno-biomimetic devices, fully-grown intelligent robots, autonomous systems and vehicles, molecular computers and nanotechnological materials, which are currently being are developed. This book investigates the various advantages, challenges and limitations of data science and artificial intelligence in techno-biomimetic systems.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527550370

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9781527550377

Chick Flicks

Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

By: B. Ruby Rich

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Chick Flicks

Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

By: B. Ruby Rich

Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, "Chick Flicks" captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done. 22 photos.

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Duke University Press

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0822321211

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9780822321217

New Hong Kong Cinema

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia

By: Ruby Cheung

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New Hong Kong Cinema

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia

By: Ruby Cheung

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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

By: D. H. Fleming,Cheung Ruby

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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

By: D. H. Fleming,Cheung Ruby

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines different modes of representing and constructing identities in and through the medium of film, transcending the narrow confines of the local / national / regional, and challenging spatial and temporal boundaries. It gathers fifteen essays that explore different dimensions of identities in contexts ranging from domestic spheres, urban milieus, socio-political environments, diasporic film-making issues, anthropology, film festivals, and psychoanalysis, to the examination of stardom in society. Engaging with cinematic representations, narrative conventions, film form, industry concerns, and other socio-cultural-economic-political factors relating to the production, distribution, exhibition and consumption of film, Cinemas, Identities and Beyond contributes to one of the most thought-provoking contemporary debates on cinemas and identities in film studies. Revisiting films such as Farewell My Concubine, The Matrix trilogy, The Straight Story, El Topo, and Days of Being Wild, this anthology establishes a framework that actively queries stabilised, ideological paradigms. The book discovers new frontiers and discourses to help us better understand ourselves and our surroundings when another decade of the new millennium is about to begin. Cinemas, Identities and Beyond will prove to be of value to a broad range of scholars, critics and students who are interested in issues pertaining to identities, and their construction in and beyond film.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527556670

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9781527556676

Book's by Ruby Cheung

New Hong Kong Cinema

New Hong Kong Cinema

Hong Kong's New Indie Cinema

Hong Kong's New Indie Cinema

What is Europe?

What is Europe?

Technomimetics versus Biomimetics

Technomimetics versus Biomimetics

Chick Flicks

Chick Flicks

New Hong Kong Cinema

New Hong Kong Cinema

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

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