Asian Cinemas : : A Reader and Guide / / Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Gary Needham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Eleftheriotis, Dimitris,; Needham, Gary,
• MitwirkendeR: Abbas, Ackbar,; Brophy, Philip,; Chow, Rey,; Desser, David,; Eleftheriotis, Dimitris,; Erdoğan, Nezih,; Garwood, Ian,; Gopalan, Lalitha,; Gürata, Ahmet,; Hunt, Leon,; Kaplan, E. Ann,; Li, Siu Leung,; Needham, Gary,; Noriega, Chon,; Pidduck, Julianne,; Tasker, Yvonne,; Teo, Stephen,; Thomas, Rosie,; Vasudevan, Ravi S.,; Williams, Tony,; Wu, I-Fen,; Yau, Esther C. M.,; Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

Asian cinema is an area of increasing interest in Anglo-US film studies while Asian films are now widely distributed and popular with western audiences. The fascination with Asian cinema must be examined in the context of a complex and often problematic relationship between western scholars, students, viewers and Asian films. This book, therefore, examines a number of detailed case studies (such as the films of Ozu, Bruce Lee, Hong Kong and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, Taiwanese directors and Fifth Generation Chinese cinema) and uses them in order to investigate the limitations of Anglo-US theoretical models and critical paradigms. By engaging the readers with familiar areas of critical discourse (such as postcolonial criticism, 'national cinema', 'genre', 'authorship' and 'stardom') the book aims to introduce within such contexts the 'unfamiliar' case studies which will be explored in depth and detail. The advantage of such an approach is that it works with the dynamics of familiarity/unfamiliarity and resists the temptation to construct Asian cinemas as a gallery of exotic objects that might be particularly fascinating but remain deeply distant and foreign.KeyFeatures:A comprehensive study of Asian cinemas, including Hong Kong, Japan, China, India, Turkey and TaiwanAn accessible guide for the study and research of Asian cinema which addresses undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchersEach section contains a contextualising introductionIncludes key texts by Ackbar Abbas, Rey Chow, David Desser, Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Nezih Erdo

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I APPROACHING ASIAN CINEMAS -- SECTION 1 ORIENTALISM AND JAPANESE CINEMA -- JAPANESE CINEMA AND ORIENTALISM -- 1 A FILMMAKER FOR ALL SEASONS -- 2 THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING RADICAL: THE DISCIPLINE OF FILM STUDIES AND THE POST-COLONIAL WORLD ORDER -- 3 GODZILLA AND THE JAPANESE NIGHTMARE: WHEN THEM! IS U.S. -- 4 MONSTER ISLAND: GODZILLA AND JAPANESE SCI-FI/HORROR/FANTASY -- SECTION 2 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM AND HONG KONG CINEMA -- THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG CINEMA -- 5 THE NEW HONG KONG CINEMA ANDTHE DÉJÀ DISPARU -- 6 KUNG FU: NEGOTIATING NATIONALISM AND MODERNITY -- 7 UNDER 'WESTERN EYES': THE PERSONAL ODYSSEY OF HUANG FEI-HONG IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA -- SECTION 3 CROSS-CULTURAL CRITICISM AND CHINESE CINEMA -- CROSS-CULTURAL CRITICISM AND CHINESE CINEMA -- 8 PROBLEMATIZING CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF WOMEN IN THE RECENT CHINESE CINEMA -- 9 SEEING MODERN CHINA:TOWARD ATHEORY OF ETHNIC SPECTATORSHIP -- 10 YELLOW EARTH: WESTERN ANALYSIS ANDA NON-WESTERN TEXT -- PART II FRAMEWORKS OF STUDY -- SECTION 4 NATIONAL CINEMA:THE CASE OF TURKEY -- TURKISH NATIONAL CINEMA -- 11 NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AMBIVALENCE IN THE TURKISH MELODRAMA BETWEEN 1965 AND 1975 -- 12 TRANSLATING MODERNITY: REMAKES IN TURKISH CINEMA -- 13 MUTE BODIES, DISEMBODIED VOICES: NOTES ON SOUND IN TURKISH POPULAR CINEMA -- SECTION 5 GENRE CRITICISM AND POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA -- GENRE CRITICISM AND POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA -- 14 INDIAN CINEMA: PLEASURES AND POPULARITY -- 15 ADDRESSING THE SPECTATOR OF A 'THIRD WORLD' NATIONAL CINEMA:THE BOMBAY 'SOCIAL' FILM OFTHE 1940S AND 1950S -- 16 'HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN?' - CINEPHILIA AND INDIAN FILMS -- 17 SHIFTING PITCH: THE BOLLYWOOD SONG SEQUENCE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MARKET -- SECTION 6 QUESTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP AND TAIWANESE CINEMA -- FILM AUTHORSHIP AND TAIWANESE CINEMA -- ISSUES OF AUTHORSHIP -- 18 OZU AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER IN HOU HSIAO-HSIEN -- 19 TOKYO LOVE STORY AND NY BAGELS: EAST-WEST CULTURAL ENCOUNTER IN EDWARD YANG'S TAIPEI STORY -- 20 THE TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA OFANG LEE -- SECTION 7 STARDOM:THE CASE OF BRUCE LEE -- BRUCE LEE: STARDOM AND IDENTITY -- 21 BRUCE LEE: NARCISSUS AND THE LITTLE DRAGON -- 22 HAN'S ISLAND REVISITED: ENTER THE DRAGON AS TRANSNATIONAL CULT FILM -- 23 FISTS OF FURY: DISCOURSES OF RACE AND MASCULINITY IN THE MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF FILMS/TV PROGRAMMES -- INDEX OF KEY TERMS