[Commlist] New book: Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern

New publication from John Libbey Publishing, which we hope will be of 
interest.

*Power Misses II***

Cinema, Asian and Modern

*Edited by David E. James***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780861967476/power-misses-ii/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780861967476/power-misses-ii/>_*

*Receive a 20% discount online:*

*CSLS2020*

Like David James’ earlier collection of essays, /Power Misses: Essays 
Across (Un)Popular Culture/(1996), the present volume, /Power Misses II: 
Cinema, Asian and Modern/is concerned with popular cultural activity 
that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media. Now with a 
wider frame of reference, it moves globally from west to east, beginning 
with films made during the Korean Democracy Movement, and then turning 
to socialist realism in China and Taiwan, and to Asian American film and 
poetry in Los Angeles. Several other avant-garde film movements in L.A. 
created communities resistant to the culture industries centered there, 
as did elements in the classic New York avant-garde, here instanced in 
the work of Ken Jacobs and Andy Warhol. The final chapter concerns 
little-known films about communal agriculture in the Nottinghamshire 
village of Laxton, the only one where the medieval open-field system 
never suffered enclosure. This survival of the commons anticipated 
resistance to the extreme and catastrophic forms of privatization, 
monetization, and theft of the public commonweal in the advanced form of 
capitalism we know as neoliberalism.

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*David E. James*taught in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University 
of Southern California for thirty years, focusing on avant-garde cinema, 
culture in Los Angeles, East-Asian cinema, film and music, and 
working-class culture. His books include /The Most Typical Avant-Garde: 
History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles/; /Optic Antics: 
The Cinema of Ken Jacobs/; and /Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With 
Popular Music/, and his collection of essays (with Adam Hyman) 
/Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945–1980./*__*


*John Libbey Publishing**| October 2020 | 208pp | 9780861967476 | PB | 
£31.00**

*Price subject to change.

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