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  • Chinese Martial Arts Cinema

    The Wuxia Tradition

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Traditions in World Cinema

    $31.99 USD

  • Eastern Westerns

    Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    The western, one of Hollywood’s great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at the same time declining in America. Although the western is often seen as an example of American cultural dominance, this book challenges this view. It considers the western from an Asian perspective, exploring why the rise of Asian westerns has come ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Hong Kong Cinema

    The Extra Dimensions

    by Stephen Teo ...
    This is the first full-length English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. Covering a period from 1909 to 'the end of Hong Kong cinema' in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios, the personalities and the contexts that have shaped a cinema famous for its energy and style. It includes studies of the films of King Hu, Bruce ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book focuses on the philosophy of Chinese martial arts film, arguing that philosophy provides a key to understanding the whole genre. It draws on Chinese philosophical ideas derived from, or based on, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and other schools of thought such as Mohism and Legalism, examines a cluster of recent Chinese martial arts films centering on the figure of the xia—the heroic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Asian Cinema Experience

    Styles, Spaces, Theory

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Wong Kar-Wai

    Auteur of Time

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series World Directors
    This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences - from Martin Scorsese to Haruki Murakami - yet shows how Wong transcends them all. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Eastern Approaches to Western Film

    Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema

    by Stephen Teo ...
    Series series World Cinema
    Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles. The book contributes an “Eastern Approach” into the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Medicinal Plants of Borneo

    Edited by Simon Gibbons, Stephen P. Teo ...
    Series series Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants
    The rich biodiversity of Borneo provides many useful plants for medicinal purposes. Written by experts in the field, Medicinal Plants of Borneo provides a guide and introduction to the medicinal plants from Borneo used traditionally as well as plants whose medicinal uses have been recently discovered. These include anti-HIV plants – such as Calophyllum lanigerum (calanolide A) – and anti-cancer ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Trust Management IX

    9th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2015, Hamburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2015, Proceedings

    Edited by Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Stephen Marsh, Theo Dimitrakos, Yuko Murayama ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management, IFIPTM 2015, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2015. The 10 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. In addition, the book contains one invited paper and 5 papers from a special session on trusted cloud ecosystems. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Human Capital Management Research

    Influencing Practice and Process

    Edited by Deborah Blackman, Michael O’Donnell, Stephen T. T. Teo ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Human Capital and Development
    When reading current human capital management or human resources management textbooks, it is clear that many do not reflect current research. Even new Strategic HRM books are only recently reporting research that has been widely discussed in academic journals over the last 10 years. Discussion with those who span the academic/practice worlds shows that they have regularly been struck by the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Singapore Cinema

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Kai Khiun Liew, Stephen Teo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book outlines and discusses the very wide range of cinema which is to be found in Singapore. Although Singapore cinema is a relatively small industry, and relatively new, it has nevertheless made an impact, and continues to develop in interesting ways. The book shows that although Singapore cinema is often seen as part of diasporic Chinese cinema, it is in fact much more than this, with ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Emerald Ark

    by Theo Garb, Michael Garb ...
    Narrated by Stephen Dalton ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    Who ever heard of an Irish Jew? Set during World War II and the Holocaust era, Emerald Ark, Memories of a Jewish Irish Youth, a memoir, shares the story of an adventurous and uncommon life — the life of Theo Garb. Born in Manchester, England, in 1929, Theo grew up an Orthodox Jew in Dublin, Ireland. His parents, Wolf, a larger-than-life figure, and Rachel, have their hands full with Theo and elder ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus