East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations

By Vivian P Y Lee Dr

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 ... 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 Cinematic Imagination of Border-Crossing in Hong Kong and the 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349325597
• ISBN13: 9781349325597
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"