East Asian cinemas
Subtitle: exploring transnational connections on film
By: edited by Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai.
Contributors: Hunt, Leon, 1961-; Leung, Wing-Fai, 1970-
Series: Tauris world cinema series
Publisher: New York; I.B. Tauris
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781845116156; 9781845116149
Subjects: Motion pictures -- East Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai; title: pt. 1, Global encounters of the first kind. Remaking Seven samurai in world cinema / David Desser; title: Fashioning modernity : Hollywood and the Hong Kong musical 1957-64 / Gary Needham; title: Electric shadow of an airplane : Hong Kong cinema, world cinema / Charles Leary; title: pt. 2., All changing on the eastern front. Infernal affairs and Kung fu hustle : panacea, placebo and Hong Kong cinema / Leung Wing-Fai; title: Contemporary South Korean cinema : 'national conjunction' and 'diversity' / Chris Howard; title: The language of the blockbuster : promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese film culture / Rayna Denison; title: pt. 3.,Made in translation; title: transnational identities. Suriyothai becomes Legend : national identity as global currency / Adam Knee; title: Last life in the universe : nationality, technology, authorship / Brian Ruh; title: From Three godfathers to Tokyo godfathers : signifying social change ina transnational context / David Scott Diffrient; title: Transnational noir : style and substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The most terrible time in my life / Theresa L. Geller; title: pt. 4.,How the west was won? Asianisation and beyond. Remaking east Asia, outsourcing Hollywood / Gary G. Xu; title: Salute to Mr. vengeance! : the making of a transnational auteur Park Chan-wook / Nikki J.Y. Lee; title: Asiaphilia, asianisation and the gatekeeper auteur : Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson / Leon Hunt; title: Brush and blade in east-west cultures / Sheng-mei Ma.