Publication of March 2020 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies -- “Genre in Asian Cinema”
Dear colleagues,
We take great pleasure in announcing the publication of the March 2020 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, “Genre in Asian Cinema,” guest-edited by Earl Jackson and Patrick Noonan. This special issue features four research articles. There are also four research articles on general topics. All articles are available on our website; for more information please visit http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/.
Sincerely,
Mary Goodwin and Aaron Deveson
Editors
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 46 No. 1 (March 2020)
Special Issue “Genre in Asian Cinema”
Introduction
Genre in Asian Cinemas: An Introduction / Earl Jackson and Patrick Noonan
Articles
Re-negotiations of the “China Factor” in Contemporary Hong Kong Genre Cinema / Ting-Ying Lin
From “Crisis of Masculinity” to Queer History: Gender, Borders, and Body Politics in Post-Handover Hong Kong Crime Films / Leo Chia-Li Chu
The Unexpected Encounter of Two Parallel Lines: Urban Space in the Films of Johnnie To / William Carroll
Spectacle Korea: Transfiguring National Boundaries, Trans-imaging National Culture in the Case of The Good, the Bad, the Weird / Kyoung-Lae Kang
Literary and Cultural Criticism
“The End of a Bright and Tranquil Summer”: Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End and the Refusal of 9/11 Representations / Brian Jansen
Trapped in the Wrong Body? Forced Sex Change and Reembodiment in The Passion of New Eve and Mygale / Chung-Hao Ku
The Ambivalence of Tradition in Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink / Peter D. Mathews
Love, War, and the Other in Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient as the Dialogic Field / Kai-su Wu