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Author Ma, Ran

Title Independent Filmmaking Across Borders in Contemporary Asia
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series Asian Visual Cultures Ser
Asian Visual Cultures Ser
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- Introduction Beyond the Homeland and Diaspora -- 1. The Art of the Dissensual -- 2. A Landscape Over There -- 3. Fading Hometown and Lost Paradise -- 4. Li Ying's Films of Displacement -- 5. Okinawan Dream Show -- 6. Homecoming Myanmar -- Postscript -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant yet unevenly developed independent film movements amidst global neoliberalism. These projects bear witness to and are shaped by the ongoing, historical processes of inter-Asia interaction characterized by geopolitical realignment, migration, and population displacement. This study threads together case studies of internationally acclaimed filmmakers, artists, and collectives such as Zhang Lu, Kuzoku, Li Ying, Takamine Go, Yamashiro Chikako, and Midi Z, all of whose transborder journeys and cinematic imaginations disrupt static identity affiliations built upon national, ethnic, or cultural differences. This transborder filmmaking can be viewed as both an aesthetic practice and political act, reframing how people, places, and their inter-connections can be perceived-opening up possibilities to reimagine Asia and its connections to globalization
Analysis East Asia and Southeast Asia
auteur
border-crossing
independent cinema
minor transnational filmmaking
Notes In English
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Subject Performing arts.
performing arts (discipline)
Media studies.
Films, cinema.
ART -- Asian -- General.
Performing arts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048537921
9048537924