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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415677745 | Routledge, April 8, 2013, cover price $240.00

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

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780415476676 | 1 edition (Routledge, January 29, 2009), cover price $53.95

Miscellaneous:

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

By Wimal Dissanayake

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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

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521414654 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $170.00

Paperback:

9780521612081 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 27, 2005, cover price $69.99

Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology

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 use

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

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Hardcover:

9780631236238 | Blackwell Pub, November 5, 2004, cover price $165.95

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9780631236245 | Blackwell Pub, November 5, 2004, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions.

By Wimal Dissanayake and K. Moti Gokulsing

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9781858563299 | New rev edition (Trentham Books Ltd, July 1, 2004), cover price $36.95

9781858560960 | Trentham Books Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $19.95

Asian Cinema: An Anthology

By Wimal Dissanayake

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Hardcover:

9781405180450 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $77.20

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 unified, politically progressive film-making practice relevant to the social conditions of Africa, Asia and Latin America, a cinema that would take on board issues of race, class, religion and notions of national integrity...read more

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

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9780415213530 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations.

Paperback:

9780415213547 | Routledge, August 1, 2003, cover price $41.95

Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time

By Wimal Dissanayake and Dorothy Wong

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9789622095847 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $60.00

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9789622095854 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $25.00

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

Product Description: The fourteen essays presented in this volume examine the diverse ways in which cultural products are shaped and re-shaped in public spaces in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and some other countries in the Pacific in their continuing encounters with the forces of localism and globalism...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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9789622018693 | Chinese Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The fourteen essays presented in this volume examine the diverse ways in which cultural products are shaped and re-shaped in public spaces in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and some other countries in the Pacific in their continuing encounters with the forces of localism and globalism.

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

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 $33.95 | 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

Product Description: This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception. The work proceeds from the assumption that changing constructions of self within Western cultures, and alternative notions of self in other cultures requires that we rethink traditional strategies for explaining the phenomenon of self-deception...read more

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 | About this edition: This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception.

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9780791430323 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception.

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

Product Description: This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency - defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, India, and Japan...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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9780816626564 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency - defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure.

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9780816626571 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency - defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure.

Global Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and Rob Wilson

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9780822317029 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $94.95

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

By Wimal Dissanayake (editor)

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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 $20.00 | About this edition: .

Self As Person in Asian Theory and Practice

Product Description: This book is a sequel to Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (SUNY, 1992) and anticipates a third book, Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice. In order to address issues as diverse as the promotion of human rights or the resolution of sexism in ways that avoid inadvertent lapses into cultural chauvinism, alternative cultural perspectives that begin from differing conceptions of self and self-realization must be articulated and respected...read more

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 | About this edition: This book is a sequel to Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (SUNY, 1992) and anticipates a third book, Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice.

Paperback:

9780791417249 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This book is a sequel to Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (SUNY, 1992) and anticipates a third book, Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice.

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

Product Description: This book comprehensively examines V.S. Naipaul's travel writings. There are many useful books that deal with his fiction but his travel narratives have not been subject to any detailed analysis. The intent of this book is to address this deficiency by investigating his texts of travel using strategies of inquiry associated with modern cultural studies...read more

By Wimal Dissanayake and Carmen Wickramagamage

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9780820419756 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book comprehensively examines V.

Self As Body in Asian Theory and Practice

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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 | About this edition: Book by Kasulis, Thomas P.

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9780791410806 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: This book is an investigation of the relationship between self and body in the Indian, Japanese, and Chinese philosophical traditions.

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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Paperback:

9780824812836 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $15.00

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