Andrew McGregor

Lisa Law

Fiona Miller

Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference. This Handbook traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia. The region is often considered to be a development success story; however, it is increasingly recognized that growth underpinning this development has been accompanied by patterns of inequality, violence, environmental degradation and cultural loss. In 30 chapters, written by established and emerging experts of the region, the Handbook examines development encounters through four thematic sections: • Approaching Southeast Asian development, • Institutions and economies of development, • People and development and • Environment and development. The authors draw from national or sub-national case studies to consider regional scale processes of development – tracing the uneven distribution of costs, risks and benefits. Core themes include the ongoing neoliberalization of development, issues of social and environmental justice and questions of agency and empowerment. This important reference work provides rich insights into the diverse impacts of current patterns of development and in doing so raises questions and challenges for realizing more equitable alternatives. It will be of value to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Development Studies, Human Geography, Political Ecology and Asian Politics.

Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development

Gemma Blackwood

This volume examines representations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It explores the link between filmed spaces and real locations, as well as the fantasy and exoticism that arise through an idealisation of the locations and their transformational impact on the protagonists who travel there.

Motion Pictures

Alex O'Neill

M. M. Dixon

B. E. Waymire

Chris Forshee

Josh Whittle

Steph Millar

M. Landwaard

Melina Munton

Giulia Ancona

Jessica Milner

L. E. Doggett

What if the human race traveled out into the stars, and they never found any aliens? What would that mean for humans then? This is a science fiction anthology featuring the work of 15 authors interpreting this simple premise: "We are alone."

The Pesolus Race

This book presents an unprecedented analysis of the dynamics of cultural representation and interpretation in film criticism. It examines how French critical reception of Australian cinema since the revival period of the 1970s has evolved as a narrative of perpetual discovery, and how a clear parallel can be drawn between French critics' reading of Australian film and their interpretation of an exotic Australian national identity. In French critical writing on Australian cinema, Australian identity is frequently defined in terms of extremes of cultural specificity and cultural anonymity. On the one hand, French critics construct a Euro-centric orientalist fantasy of Australia as not only a European Antipodes, but the antithesis of Europe. At the same time, French critics have tended to subordinate Australian cultural identity within the framework of a resented Anglo-American filmic and cultural hegemony. The book further explores this marginalisation by examining the influence of the French auteur paradigm, particularly in reference to the work of Jane Campion, as well as by discussing the increasingly problematic notion of national identity, and indeed national cinemas, within the universal framework of international film culture.

The Perpetual French Discovery of Australian Cinema

Film Criticism as Cultural Fantasy

November 1942, Russia: As the German Sixth Army realises how vicious the fighting in Stalingrad can become, the Germans take troops from their flanks in final attempts to take the city before the onset of 'another bitter Russian winter.' One last push will finish the Russians once and for all. The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, has virtually driven the Red Air Force from the skies. To the south of Stalingrad, on a thinly held front line stretching hundreds of miles, small groups of German troops are dispersed across positions held by their allies of the Romanian Army. The front is relatively quiet, most believe the Russian Army is finished. The end of the war in the east may only be days away. The soldiers rest in bunkers on the long front line, writing letters and thinking of Christmas. The end of the war in the east and a new German empire stretching from the channel coast to the Ural mountains common in dreams and conversation. The soldiers thought they would soon be going home......

Bloody Iced Bullet

Andrew McGregor

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