East Asian cinema and cultural heritage
Subtitle: from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea
By: edited by Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780230116955
Subjects: Motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures
Description: "How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages - "traditional" elements including martial arts, music, landscape, aesthetics, stage performances, and legends - and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Reclaiming a Legacy: The New-style Martial Arts Saga and Globalized entertainment / David Desser; title: Forging a Cultural Heritage in Chinese Movies: The Sinifications and Self-imposed Distancing from Chinese Culture in a Globalized Industry / Yu Siu-wah; title: Contested Heritage: Cinema, Collective Memory, and the Politics of Local Heritage in Hong Kong / Vivian Lee Pui-yin; title: Traditional Chinese Aesthetics and Contemporary Chinese Films: Applying the Idea of Qi-yun to Understand the Temporal Structure of Selected Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien / Lo Wai-luk; title: A "Horrible" Legacy: Noh and J-horror / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting; title: The Loyal 47 Ranin Never Die: Influence of Chushingura on Japanese War Films / Kinna Yau Shuk-ting; title: The Creation of Pansori Cinema: Sopyonje and Chunhyang in Creative Hybridity / Kim Shin-dong; title: Martial Arts Craze in Korea: Cultural Translation of Martial Arts Film and Literature in the 1960s / Lee Sang-joon.