Transnational Asian identities in Pan-Pacific cinemas
Subtitle: the reel Asian exchange
By: edited by Philippa Gates & Lisa Funnell
Series: Routledge advances in film studies -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780415893541
Subjects: Culture in motion pictures; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the reel Asian exchange / Lisa Funnell and Philippa Gates; title: Remixing/remaking formulas. Hong Kong noir: American film noir and Asian innovation, 1956-66 / Philippa Gates; title: Drunken master meets the Monkey King: transnational Chinese identities in action / Lan Dong; title: Shoot-out in Hokkaido: the "Wanderer" (Wataridori) series and the politics of transnationality / Hiroshi Kitamura; title: Cultural odor in the global order: globalization and the raced Japanese body / Jun Okada; title: Perception/reception. Learning Bushid from abroad: Japanese reactions to The last samurai / Jayson Makoto Chun; title: Illegitimate gloss: from Anna Leonowens' Tuptim to contemporary Thai/American sexploitation / Pahole Sookkasikon; title: Translating Hollywood film to Chinese audience: the role of agency and appropriation in transnational cultural encounters / Zhiwei Xiao; title: Questions of cultural proximity and the "Asian popular": South Korean audiences watching Zhang Yimou's martial arts blockbusters / Nikki J.Y. Lee; title: Trans-action: epic tensions and ethics of memory in East Asian co-productions / Yun Mi Hwang; title: Female fandom/stardom. Migrating West to the East: transnational Chinese Canadians in post-1997 Hong Kong cinema / Lisa Funnell; title: From national allegory to global commodity: the cinematic images of Gong Li / Ka F. Wong; title: The transnational journey of O Ren Ishii: the American cultification of the Asian female avenger / Leung Wing-Fai; title: Emerging subjectivities. Mysterious object of desire: the haunted cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Angela O'Hara; title: Adopted: crossing (out) boundaries of adoptee kinship and global belonging / Aino Rinhaug; title: Trauma and Taiwan's melodrama: Seven orphans of Cape no. 7 / Sheng-Mei Ma.