Cinema and the Cultural Cold War : : US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network / / Sangjoon Lee.

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when analyz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:The United States in the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 25 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of the Asian Cinema Network
  • Part I: The First Network
  • 1. The Asia Foundation's Motion Picture Project
  • 2. The FPA, US Propaganda, and Postwar Japanese Cinema
  • 3. It's Oscar Time in Asia!
  • 4. Constructing the Anticommunist Producers' Alliance
  • 5. Projecting Asian Cinema to the World
  • Part II: The Second Network
  • 6. The Rise and Demise of a Developmental State Studio
  • 7. Hong Kong, Hollywood, and the End of the Network
  • Epilogue: From Asia to Asia-Pacific
  • Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index