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

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, student...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (488 p.)
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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