Multiple modernities
Subtitle: cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia
By: edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau
Contributors: Lau, Jenny Kwok Wah, 1954-
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781566399852; 9781566399869
Subjects: Motion pictures -- East Asia; Popular culture -- East Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Globalization and youthful subculture: the Chinese sixth-generation films at the dawn of the new century / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau; title: Marx or market: Chinese rock and the sound of fury / Jeroen de Kloet; title: Reexamining the East and the West: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, "Orientalism," and popular culture / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto; title: Stranger than Tokyo: space and race in postnational Japanese cinema / Yomota Inuhiko, translated by Aaron Gerow; title: Discourse on modernization in 1900s Korean cinema / Han Ju Kwak; title: Youth in crisis: national and cultural identity in new South Korean cinema / Frances Gateward; title: The fragmented commonplace: alternative arts and cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong / Hector Rodriguez; title: Immediacy, parody, and image in the mirror: is there a postmodern scene in Beijing? / Dai Jinhua, translated by Jing M. Wang; title: Terms of transition: the action film, postmodernism, and issues of an east-west perspective / Chuck Kleinhans; title: Consuming Asia: Chinese and Japanese popular culture and the American imaginary / David Desser; title: Of executioners and courtesans: the performance of gender in Hong Kong cinema of the 1990s / Augusta Lee Palmer and Jenny Kwok Wah Lau; title: The woman with broken palm lines: subject, agency, fortune-telling, and women in Taiwanese television drama / Lin Szu-Ping