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How East Asian Films are Reshaping National Identities

Author : Andrew David Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How East Asian Films are Reshaping National Identities written by Andrew David Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the mosaic of East Asian cinema by focusing on issues of identity, history and trans-regional cultural flow within this dynamic region. The argument of the editors is firstly, cinematic cross-pollination within East Asian film has been a constant since 1945, and second, any discussion of the complex identity of East Asia and its national cinemas must consider regional historical issues. These arguments run counter to recent literature published in the field of East Asian cinema that claim responses to Western globalization and modernization are the shaping forces for Asian cultural identity.

South Korean Cinema and Hybridity of East Asian Identity

Author : Hector Kim
Publisher : Hector Kim
ISBN 13 : 1453715967
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book South Korean Cinema and Hybridity of East Asian Identity written by Hector Kim and published by Hector Kim. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempts to identify the integral elements contributory to the recent success of South Korean films in East Asia, most existing researches maintain their wide focal length on either: underlying political conditions like South Korea's media liberalization, or the continually rising demand for non-Hollywood films in the region. This text, however, takes a different approach and looks more closely to the question of "South Korean cinema's place in (re)construction of East Asian identity" as it was found a significant yet underexplored area of research. The questioning is attempted by testing the hypothesis that the merit of South Korean films relies more on the cultural "similarity / proximity" based on "common experience of absorption of Western modern civilization" than the cultural "otherness / distance" based on "different experience of consumption of modern culture". The mode of production and the relationship between the global and South Korean film industry are contextually examined in order to identify and understand the invisible underpinnings, which otherwise would go unnoticed while spectators watch films. In doing so, the text analyzes the unique conditions that the South Korean film industry grew out of, and the effects such underlying conditions had on the contemporary "genre-bending" films, for which South Korean cinema is best known and favored nowadays. Furthermore, by placing hanryu (Korean Wave) phenomenon within the context of globalization discourse, the three main strands of globalization discourse - 1. Cultural imperialism, 2. Modernity project, 3. Hybridization of identity - are applied to the questioning of South Korean cinema's place in East Asia amid the changing trend of cultural flows in times of globalization.

A Companion to Wong Kar-wai

Author : Martha P. Nochimson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118424247
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Wong Kar-wai written by Martha P. Nochimson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 25 essays that embrace a wide spectrum of topics and perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong’s highly original portrayal of violence, A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the innovation, beauty, and passion he brings to filmmaking. Brings together the most cutting edge, in-depth, and interesting scholarship on arguably the greatest living Asian filmmaker, from a multinational group of established and rising film scholars and critics Covers a huge breadth of topics such as the tradition of the jianghu in Wong's films; queering Wong's films not in terms of gender but through the artist's liminality; the phenomenological Wong; Wong's intertextuality; America through Wong's eyes; the optics of intensities, thresholds, and transfers of energy in Wong's cinema; and the diasporic presence of some ladies from Shanghai in Wong's Hong Kong Examines the political, historical, and sociological influence of Wong and his work, and discusses his work from a variety of perspectives including modern, post-modern, postcolonial, and queer theory Includes two appendices which examine Wong’s work in Hong Kong television and commercials

Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

Author : Philippa Gates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136591567
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas by : Philippa Gates

Download or read book Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas written by Philippa Gates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The topics explored in this collection include the innovation of Hollywood generic formulas into 1950's and 1960's Hong Kong and Japanese films; the examination of Thai and Japanese raced and gendered identity in Asian and American films; the reception of Hollywood films in pre-1949 China and millennial Japan; the production and performance of Asian adoptee identity and subjectivity; the political implications and interpretations of migrating Chinese female stars; and the production and reception of pan-Pacific co-productions. .

Asian Cinema and the Use of Space

Author : Lilian Chee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134629532
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Asian Cinema and the Use of Space written by Lilian Chee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia. Concentrating on the performative potential of cinematic space in Asian films, the contributors discuss how space (re)constructs forms of identities and meanings across a range of cinematic practices. Cities, landscapes, buildings and interiors actively shape cinematic performances of such identities and their significances. The essays are structured around the spatial themes of ephemeral, imagined and contested spaces. They deal with struggles for identity, belonging, autonomy and mobility within different national and transnational contexts across East, Southeast and parts of South Asia in particular, which are complicated by micropolitics and subcultures, and by the interventions and interests of global lobbies.

Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries

Author : Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135219478
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries by : Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia

Download or read book Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries written by Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the cooperation between Hong Kong and Japanese cinema from the Sino-Japanese War, which broke out in the 1930s, up until the early 1970s, to re-evaluate the significance of this event in the context of Asian film history.

From Citizenship Education to National Education

Author : King Man Eric Chong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317229746
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book From Citizenship Education to National Education written by King Man Eric Chong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a timely contribution to understanding perceptions on national identity and National Education, with both of them have become controversial topics in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. In a so-called globalization era, national identity and National Education, with the latter having an aim of fostering a Chinese national identity in education, have been significantly pushed ahead by the Hong Kong SAR government since the early 2000s as a response to the return of sovereignty to China in 1997. Teacher perception matters to what they select and how they teach in the schools. By incorporating fieldworks of teacher interviews, observation and documentary analysis, this book argues for a multi-layered conception of identity, different aims, contents and diversified methods of National Education should be recognized. This book is likely to become a useful account of teacher perception on national identity and National Education in citizenship education literature, and it will be relevant to policymakers, teachers, trainers and researchers. Chapters include, 1. Different meanings of national identity of teachers and aims, contents and methods of National Education 2. From Citizenship Education to National Education in a Chinese society 3. Implications for understanding National Education in a globalization era: mixed identification, multi-layered identities, knowledge transmission, and ‘global identity’

Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

Author : Philippa Gates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136591559
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas by : Philippa Gates

Download or read book Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas written by Philippa Gates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The topics explored in this collection include the innovation of Hollywood generic formulas into 1950's and 1960's Hong Kong and Japanese films; the examination of Thai and Japanese raced and gendered identity in Asian and American films; the reception of Hollywood films in pre-1949 China and millennial Japan; the production and performance of Asian adoptee identity and subjectivity; the political implications and interpretations of migrating Chinese female stars; and the production and reception of pan-Pacific co-productions. .

Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond

Author : Lin Feng
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303055077X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond written by Lin Feng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and exhibition practices of East Asian genre films, intra-regional creative flow of screen culture, and genre’s creative response to censorship. The volume expands the scholarly discussion of the rich heritage and fast-changing landscape of filmmaking in East Asian cinemas. Confronting the complex interaction between genres, filmic narrative and aesthetics, film history and politics, and cross-cultural translation, this book not only reevaluates genre’s role in film production, distribution, and consumption, but also tackles several under-explored areas in film studies and transnational cinema, such as the history of East Asian commercial cinema, the East Asian film industry, and cross-media and cross-market film dissemination.

Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema

Author : Peter C. Pugsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317008472
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema written by Peter C. Pugsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, cinematic texts from the nations of Asia are increasingly capturing audiences beyond their national boundaries. Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema explores the rise of popular Asian cinema and provides an understanding of the aesthetic elements that mark these films as 'Asian cinema'. Incorporating examples of contemporary films from China, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and India, Peter C. Pugsley gives readers a fresh insight into the rapidly developing discourse on popular Asian media. The book's chapters focus on the aesthetic features of national cinemas and the intersections of local/global encountered in the production, distribution and consumption of contemporary Asian films. By tracking across some of the most influential countries in Asia the book is able to offer new perspectives into the visual and aural features that create greater understanding between East and West. As distribution and technological advances make Asian films more readily available, an understanding of the different aesthetics at play will enable readers of this book to recognise key cultural motifs found in cinematic texts from Asia.

East Asian Cinemas

Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736361
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book East Asian Cinemas written by Leon Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. It examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the 'Asianisation' of western cinema. It explores the dialogue not only between 'East' and 'West', but between different cinemas in the Asia Pacific. What do these trends mean for global cinema? How are co-productions and crossover films changing the nature of Hollywood and East Asian cinemas? The book includes in-depth studies of Park Chan-wook, 'Infernal Affairs', 'Seven Samurai', and 'Princess Mononoke'.

Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

Author : Kwai-Cheung Lo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432100
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions written by Kwai-Cheung Lo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

South Korean Film

Author : Hyon Joo Yoo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501322583
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book South Korean Film written by Hyon Joo Yoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korean Film: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential three-volume reference collection representing three distinct phases in the development of South Korean national cinema, foregrounding how epochal characteristics inform the way in which the national cinema represents the penetrating thematic concern of auteur-ship, genre, spectatorship, gender, and nation, as well as the way in which these themes find expression in distinct visual styles and forms.

World Directors and Their Films

Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885247
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book World Directors and Their Films written by Bert Cardullo and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World Directors and Their Films, Bert Cardullo offers readable analyses of some of the most important films and the artists who produced them. Beyond simple biographical capsules and plot summaries, these readings demonstrate with clarity and elegance how international moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals. Including essays on filmmakers from China, Japan, India, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Senegal, and Chad, this book is an engaging collection of enlightening and helpful essays that will appeal as much to the general reader as it will to scholars of international cinema.

Broken Narratives

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004277234
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Broken Narratives written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War reshuffled the power relations between former friends and enemies. In Broken Narratives the contributors offer an account of the consequences of the end of the Cold War for the (re-)telling of history in film, literature and academic historiography in Europe and East Asia. Despite the post-modern claim that there is no need for a master-narrative, the contributions to this book show that we are in the middle of an intense and difficult search for a common understanding of the past. However, instead of common narratives polyphony and dissonances are produced which reflect a world in a period of transition. As the contributions to this volume show, the year 1989 has generated broken narratives. Contributors include: Peter Verstraten, Rotem Kowner, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Carsten Schäfer, Martin Gieselmann, Yonson Ahn, Chang Lung-chih, Andrea Riemenschnitter, Shingo Minamizuka, Petra Buchholz, and Tatiana Zhurzhenko.

The Asian Cinema Experience

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136296093
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Asian Cinema Experience written by Stephen Teo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component – this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema.

A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema

Author : Esther M. K. Cheung
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118883543
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema written by Esther M. K. Cheung and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies, Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies, global studies, and critical theory Highlights the often contentious debates that shape current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, and sexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexual difference in Hong Kong cinema Charts how developments in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, Orientalism, and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics and politics of the Hong Kong film industry Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, and trauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways of understanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres and stars