Genre in Asian Film and Television [electronic resource] : New Approaches /
Chan, F.editor.
Karpovich, A.editor.
Zhang, X.editor.
Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I: Non-Fiction Genres; 1 Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali; 2 Law through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon's Choice: A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education through Television in Korea; 3 Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women through the Lens of Documentary Films; 4 Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity and the Construction of 'The Native' in Gift of Life and Viva Tonal; Part II: Reconsidering Mainstream Genres
5 Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China6 Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema; 7 Defreezing Notions of the Indian Mythological; 8 The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre; 9 From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera; Part III: Genre and Cross-Cultural Representation; 10 (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle; 11 The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime's Dreams of Europe
12 The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of 'Asia' in Bengali Films13 Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in The Bird People in China and Cold Fever; 14 East Asian Pop Culture; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.
Motion pictures and television.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Communication.
Cultural studies.
Sociology.
Film genres.
Screen Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Media Research.
Genre.