Chandrarathna Dissanayake

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling

This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

Details why the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things

As political barriers crumble, Asian cinema is increasingly attracting the attention of film critics, film scholars, and specialists in cultural studi

“Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every h

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called "art," and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part i

Discusses the place of art in human evolution and in the future

In this book, the authors explore the variety of ways the news media-newspapers, radio, and television-are involved in national and international conf

The "Third Cinema" movement called for a politicised film-making in Africa, Asia and Latin America which would address issues of race, class, religion

When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in June 2020, he signalled the dissolution of the UK's D

India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalization by academics in the Western