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Sholay, a Cultural Reading

Wimal Dissanayake, Malti Sahai - Motion pictures - 1992 - 186 pages
Seeks To Study This Film In Relation To 3 Themes - Its Place In The Evolution Of Popular Indian Cinema - The Concept Of Evil Which Is Central To The Film And The Diverse Ways ...
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Melodrama and Asian Cinema

Wimal Dissanayake - Performing Arts - 1993 - 300 pages
This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.
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Transnational Asia Pacific: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere

Shirley Lim, Larry E. Smith, Wimal Dissanayake - Business & Economics - 1999 - 206 pages
From fiddle tunes to folk ballads, from banjos to blues, traditional music thrives in the remote mountains and hollers of West Virginia. For a quarter century, Goldenseal ...
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Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice

Thomas P. Kasulis, Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake - Philosophy - 1993 - 410 pages
This book is an investigation of the relationship between self and body in the Indian, Japanese, and Chinese philosophical traditions. The interplay between self and body is ...
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Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

Rob Wilson, Wimal Dissanayake - History - 1996 - 412 pages
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational ...
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Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema

Wimal Dissanayake - Performing Arts - 1994 - 266 pages
" . . . an important collective work for communication practitioners, students, and scholars who want to have a deeper understanding of film making in Asia and of the promotion ...
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