East Asian Cinemas [electronic resource] : Regional Flows and Global Transformations /
Lee, V.editor.
This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Mapping East Asia's Cinemascape; Part I: Filmmaking, Film Industry, and the Film Market; 1. Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas; 2. Hollywood's Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema; Part II: Genre and Transnational Aesthetics; 3. Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the ""Desert of the Real"": Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style
4. 007 in Late Colonial Hong Kong: Technology, Masculinity, and Sly Humor in Stephen Chow's From Beijing with Love5. ""Asia"" as Regional Signifier and Transnational Genre-Branding: The Asian Horror Omnibus Movies Three and Three ... Extremes; 6. J-Horror and Kimchi Western: Mobile Genres in East Asian Cinemas; Part III: Screen Cultures and Identity Politics; 7. Rethinking a New National Identity in Heisei Japan: Neo-Conservatism and Japanese Cinema; 8. Cinematic Imagination of Border-Crossing in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: Comrades, Almost a Love Story and Durian, Durian
9. In the Name of ""Asia"": Practices and Consequences of Recent International Film Co-Productions in East AsiaPart IV: Interviews: Filmmakers on Filmmaking; 10. Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-Production; 11. ""Working Through China"" in the Pan-Asian Film Network: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Singapore; Index
Includes index.
This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Ethnology—Asia.
Arts.
Communication.
Film genres.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Asian Culture.
Arts.
Media Studies.
Genre.