Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Word & Image: Russell C. Leong. (Amerasia Journal, Vol. 37, no. 1)

  • special issue of Amerasia journal dedicated to the work of Russell C. Leong.
Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire.

Making surprising and revelatory connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military labor in the Vietnam War, domestic female sex workers, South Korean prostitution for U.S. troops, and immigrant/migrant labor from Asia in contemporary South Korea. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Lee reimagines the South Korean economic "miracle" as a global and regional articulation of industrial, military, and sexual proletarianization.

Lee not only addresses these under-studied labors individually but also integrates a! nd unites them to reveal an alternative narrative of a changing South Korean working class whose heterogeneity is manifested in its objectification. Delving into literary and popular cultural sources as well as sociological work, Lee locates South Korean development in its military and economic interactions with the United States and other Asian nation-states, offering a unique perspective on how these practices have shaped and impacted U.S.-South Korea relations.
In the 1980s, America witnessed an explosion in the production, popularity, and influence of literary works by people of color and a decadelong economic downturn that severely affected America's inner cities and the already disadvantaged communities of color that lived there. Marked by soaring levels of unemployment, homelessness, violence, drug abuse, and despair, this urban crisis gave the lie to the American dream, particularly when contrasted with the success enjoyed by the era's iconic stockbrokers and o! ther privileged groups, whose fortunes increased dramatically ! under Re aganomics.

In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee explores how these parallel trends of literary celebration and social misery manifested themselves in fictional narratives of racial anxiety by focusing on four key works: Alejandro Morales's The Brick People, John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire, Hisaye Yamamoto's "A Fire in Fontana," and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Each of these fictions, he finds, addresses the decade's racial, ethnic, and economic inequities from differing perspectives: Morales's revisions of Chicano identity, Yamamoto's troubled invocation of the affinities between African Americans and Asian Americans, the problematic connections between black intellectuals and the black community aired by Wideman, and Wolfe's satirization of white privilege. Drawing on the fields of literary criticism, public policy, sociology, and journalism, Lee deftly assesses the success with which these multicultural fictions engaged in the debates over these i! ssues and the extent to which they may actually have alienated the very communities that their creators purported to represent.

Challenging both the uncritical celebration of abstract multiculturalism and its simpleminded vilification, Lee roots Urban Triage in specific instances of multiracial contact and deeply informed readings of works that have been canonized within ethnic studies and of those that either remain misunderstood or were misguided from the start.224 p., 23 cm.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Kamikaze Girls [Blu-ray]

  • UK Import
  • Blu-ray
  • Region-Free
United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player. You need Blu-Ray DVD player to view this Blu-Ray DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Anamorphic Widescreen, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Making Of, Music Video, Scene Access, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Based on the hit Japanese novel SHIMOTSUMA STORY by Novala Takemoto, KAMIKAZE GIRLS is a charming, unique, and very funny film. Pop star Kyoko Fukada stars as Momoko, a 17-year-old girl so obsessed with everything rococo that she wears old-fashioned frilly white clothing and carries a parasol. After her mother (Ryoko Shinohara) leaves and her would-be yakuza father (Hiroyuki Miyasako) gets kicked out of the big city for selling the wrong ki! nd of designer knock-offs, Momoko and her dad move to the country, living with Momoko's somewhat offbeat grandmother (Kirin Kiki). Desperate for money, Momoko starts selling the remainder of her father's counterfeit clothing, but her only customer is a tough-talking young biker chick, Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), who belongs to an all-girl gang. Against all probability, the two very different teenagers become best friends, even though neither will admit it. And when Ichigo faces serious danger, Momoko must decide whether she can save the day. Writer-director Tetsuya Nakashima infuses the delightful KAMIKAZE GIRLS with fast-paced scenes, goofy flashbacks, playful sets, bright colors, and an endearing and infectious sense of fun in every shot. ...Kamikaze Girls (2004) ( Shimotsuma monogatari )
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Jibeuro Movie Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2002) French Style A -(Eul-boon Kim)(Seung-ho Yu)(Hyo-hee Dong)

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The Baron - Complete Series 8-DVD Set [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]

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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Bollywood DVD With English Subtitles

  • Original Yash Raj Films DVD
Starring: SAIF ALI KHAN, ADITYA PANCHOLI, KAJOL, ARUNA IRANI, LAXMIKANT BERDE& KADER KHAN

Synopsis: Yash Vardhan (Aditya Pancholi) is an industrialist from the richest Royal families of Rajasthan. On one business trip He saw a gypsy girl Reshma (Kajol) who brings back memories long supressed but not forgotten. Yash Vardhan brings Reshma alongwith her father (Satyen Kappu) to his palace and asks Dai Ma (Aruna Irani) to look after them. Dai Ma too is shocked to see Reshma whether Rani (Kajol) come back or is alike? Yash Vardhan orders Dai Ma to being grooming Reshma in the Mould of Rani. Unaware of the truth, Reshma enjoys the comforts and the luxury in the beginning. Yash Vardhan promised to make her a great singing & dancing star and also to get her ailing father the best medical treatment. But soon, Reshma realises that she is being moulded into another! personality. The rich, expensive cloths she is made to wear smell of the death of another person who she was suppose to take the place of. One day, when Yash Vardhan takes her to the shopping, she sees a boy walking away with a guitar on his back. Reshma begins to follow the boy almost in a hypontic trance. Yash Vardhan follows her. When Reshma touches the boy's shoulder, the boy turns. It is Raju (Saif Ali Khan), a street singer and an aspiring film star. Yash Vardhan is shocked to see him. Has Raja come back too? Raja who was his best friend, Raja whom Rani loved, Raja whom he killed for Rani because he loved Rani too. Will Raju recognise Reshma as Rani? Will Rani be able to convince Raju that he is actually Raja reborn and that she is Rani reborn? Will Yash Vardhan succeed? Will Raja and Rani's love die again to live forever or survive their destiny? Will the Saga of 70's be replayed all over again in '97'? With what consequence? 'Hameshaa' answers these questions.

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When young psychiatrist Ajay meets Piya on a sea liner he is immediately drawn to her, and after a night at the bar they become inseparable. By the time they land at Mumbai they have fallen in love and soon marry. Howver, all does not run smoothly for them; Piya is struck down by Alzheimer's disease. What begins as a simple romantic comedy is turned into a far more complex and touching tale, which explores the slow mental corrosion of a poorly understood mental condition.Yashovardhan Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Nandini (Jaya Bachchan) have raised their sons, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) and Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) showering them with love and affection. Yash has tried to pass on to his sons the values, heritage and traditions of their family. Nandini has different dreams for her sons. Dreams of love that she wanted both her sons to experience, more so Rahul as she shares a special bond with him. A bond that has bee! n cultivated with love for a child that was never meant to be... a child who was adopted. Rahul's adoption was a secret never discussed in the Raichand household. Ever since Rahul found out at the age of 8 years, it became the reason for his unending gratitude for his parents- especially his father. His father's every wish became a command for him. A command which he never breaks until he falls in love with Anjali (Kajol)- a bubbly girl from Chandni Chowk, who dotes on her younger sister Pooja (Kareen Kapoor). Rahul marries Anjali and brings her home but his father doesn't approve of her. Rahul thus decides to leave home causing his mother's every waking moment to be spent eagerly awaiting his return. Seeing this the younger son Rohan makes a promise to reunite the family and bring back the happiness they once shared.
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The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

  • Before leaving for college, Alison Dodge (Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars ) travels to the Arizona desert to visit her estranged father who abandoned her when she was six years old. Her father, Al (Emmy® Award-nominee Tim Matheson, The West Wing ) is a solitary and emotionally withdrawn man who spends his time working as a handyman and shut off from the world around him. Five-time Golden Globe
Based on the propaganda film from 1936 that has become a cult hit, Reefer Madness is the height of camp entertainment! Framed as a "documentary", a straight-laced high school principal (Alan Cumming) seeks to impart his wisdom about the demon weed by telling a frightful tale about the fate of two innocent teens who fall under the spell of the drugs. Filled with outrageously funny and musical performances by Neve Campbell, Christian Campbell, Kristen Bell and Steven Weber, Reefer Madness is the feel good ev! ent of the year!If the idea of making a musical out of Roger Corman's Z-movie quickie The Little Shop of Horrors sounded weird, stick around for the all-singing, all-dancing Reefer Madness. Deliriously based on the notorious 1936 anti-pot social-guidance film, this is an ultra-campy enterprise that lands somewhere between Rocky Horror and a John Waters comedy. Christian Campbell and the spritzy Kristen Bell play the innocent teens lured into a soul-sapping cloud of marijuana dependence by pencil-mustached pusher Steven Weber and his long-suffering dame, Ana Gasteyer. The cast includes femme fatale Amy Spanger and a cameo by Neve Campbell, who dances her way through one sequence. The musical was written and composed by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, who re-create some of the kookiest scenes from the original movie ("Faster! Faster!"). Their funniest idea is to frame the sordid saga with a black-and-white story of a government agent showing a public-servic! e film to horrified small-town citizens; he's played by the re! liably s inister Alan Cumming, who also pops up in a variety of guises in the film-within-the-film. The only problem with this made-for-Showtime version of the stage show is that camp tends to wear thin, especially at 109 minutes, despite the expert song parodies. Even the original hour-long Reefer Madness got old quick. --Robert HortonKING AND QUEEN OF MOONLIGHT BAY - DVD Movie
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Mercy

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Chak De! India [Blu-ray]

  • Original Yashraj Films Blu-ray Disc
Bollywood's biggest production house brings out a collection of 8 of the best movies of the 'Badshah' of Indian movies- Shahrukh Khan. This DVD set contains the following 8 movie:

1. Chak De India- "Jo nahin ho sakta hai, wahi to karna hai"...

Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) knows what it's like to come back from the dead. The ex Indian Captain has now come back in the avatar of the Coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey team. A team that exists more on paper and less in reality. A rag-tag bunch of girls with their own agenda. They have played every game but hockey to make sure they get selected every year in the Indian National team. But what does it really mean to play for the Indian National team? To play for India?
"Mujhe sirf ek mulk ka naam sunaai deta hai - In-di-a"

The girls have never known the thrilling energy of being Team India. ! Of giving their all to see their country's name on a trophy. But Kabir Khan, once a captain, now forgotten, does. He knows what it takes to get there. And what it means to return empty handed. This time, he wants to make sure that it's different. He knows there are no second chances. Despite his past, he believes that if only the girls played as one, anything would be possible.Because Kabir Khan believes that it is not that we can't win. It's just that we have never believed we can.Chak De India is the story of a coach's fight of making his team, Team India by overcoming their diverse backgrounds, by learning to use everything that life hurls on them as a secret weapon. It's a story about honesty, sincerity and integrity.

2. New York-New York is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh) has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough he b! egins to see and love America through the eyes of his American! friends Sam (John Abraham) and Maya (Katrina Kaif). It is the story of these three friends discovering a new world together.

But one day the world around them changed...

For most of us, larger events in the world are just headlines in the newspapers but these events can change our lives...

forever. New York is one such story of 3 young friends whose beautiful lives are turned upside down by larger events beyond their control.

At this point enters Agent Roshan (Irrfan), an FBI undercover agent who sets the ball rolling for a series of tumultuous events that turn the lives of these friends into a dangerous and thrilling roller coaster ride.

3. Rocket Singh- Salesman of the Year- Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor) has just graduated, and his marks are, well, let s say a little embarrassing. But marks never stopped him from dreaming of an exciting and adventurous career, and they never will.

He takes a deep, positive breath and dives into the world of sales, rumoure! d to be an ultra cool career for all smart people blocked from entering medical, engineering or business schools by brainless entrance exams. It is everything he dreamt of, with its smooth dressing, smoother talking men and women who can sell ice to an Eskimo, dreams to an insomniac, and a lifetime mobile connection to a dying man.

But soon, his idea of success begins clashing with the strange ways of these professionals and bosses he looked up to.

Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year is the sometimes thoughtless, sometimes thoughtful story of a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the professional way, and the way of his heart and stumbling upon a crazy way which turned his world upside down, and his career right side up.

Welcome to the world of sales boss!

Don't miss this masala-filled typical Bollywood movie collection. This DVD comes in a steel box and is a great gift for Bollywood lovers.Original Yashraj Films Blu-ray Disc
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