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Title East Asian cinemas : regional flows and global transformations / edited by Vivian P.Y. Lee
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Contents Introduction; V.P.Y. Lee -- PART I: FILMMAKING, FILM INDUSTRY, AND THE FILM MARKET -- Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas; S. Hwee Lim -- Hollywood's Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema; Y. Hong & X. Zhiwei -- PART II: GENRE AND TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETICS -- Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the 'Desert of the Real': Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style; G. Marchetti -- 007 in Late Colonial Hong Kong: Technology, Masculinity, and Sly Humour in Stephen Chow's From Beijing with Love; E.K.W. Yu -- Regional and Generic Conflation of Asian Horror: the Asian Horror Omnibus Seen in Three and Three ⁵ Extremes; N.J.Y. Lee -- J-Horror and Kimchi Western: Mobile Genres in East Asian Cinemas; V.P.Y. Lee -- PART III: SCREEN CULTURES AND IDENTITY POLITICS -- Rethinking a New National Identity in Heisei Japan: Neo-conservatism and Japanese Cinema; K. Shuk-ting Yau -- Representations of Cross-Border People Flow in the Global City-Region of Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta: Comrades, Almost a Love Story and Durian, Durian; T.M. Huang -- In the name of East Asia: practices and consequences of recent international film co-productions in East Asia; T. Wei -- PART IV: INTERVIEWS: FILMMAKERS ON FILMMAKING -- Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-production; S. Deboer -- 'Working Through China' in the Pan-Asian Film Network: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Singapore; V.P.Y. Lee -- Index
Introduction / Vivian Lee -- Filmmaking, Film Industry, and the Film Market . Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas / Song Hwee Lim -- Hollywood's Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema / Yin Hong and Xiao Zhiwei -- Genre and Transnational Aesthetics. Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the 'Desert of the Real': Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style / Gina Marchetti -- 007 in Late Colonial Hong Kong: Technology, Masculinity, and Sly Humour in Stephen Chow's From Beijing with Love / Eric K.W. Yu -- Regional and Generic Conflation of Asian Horror: the Asian Horror Omnibus Seen in Three and Three ... Extremes / Nikki J.Y. Lee -- J-Horror and Kimchi Western: Mobile Genres in East Asian Cinemas / Vivian P.Y. Lee -- Screen Cultures and Identity Politics. Rethinking a New National Identity in Heisei Japan: Neo-conservatism and Japanese Cinema / Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau -- Representations of Cross-Border People Flow in the Global City-Region of Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta: Comrades, Almost a Love Story and Durian, Durian / Tsung-yi Michelle Huang -- In the name of East Asia: practices and consequences of recent international film co-productions in East Asia / Ti Wei -- Interviews: Filmmakers on Filmmaking -- Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-production / Stephanie Deboer -- 'Working Through China' in the Pan-Asian Film Network: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Singapore / Vivian Lee
Summary The recent international success of films from East Asia has stimulated critical reflections on the changing cinemascape in the region. This collection of essays presents a selection of in-depth analyses of the latest developments in East Asian cinemas in the age of globalization. Organised into three thematic clusters--the East Asian Cinemascape, Genre and Transnational Aesthetics; Screen Cultures and Identity Politics; and Filmmakers on Filmmaking--the articles embody a diversity of critical perspectives from academic researchers as well as industry practitioners
"This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- East Asia
Motion picture industry -- East Asia
Film theory & criticism -- East Asia, Far East.
Media studies -- East Asia, Far East.
Film: styles & genres -- East Asia, Far East.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Performing Arts.
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
East Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lee, Vivian P. Y., 1966-
ISBN 9780230307186
0230307183