Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches

By Felicia Chan

Book Overview

Introduction; F.Chan & A.Karpovich PART I: NON-FICTION GENRES Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali; M.Hobart Law Through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon's Choice: A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education Through Television in Korea; J.Y.Park Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women Through the Lens of Documentary Films; C.J.Pang Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity, and the Construction of 'The Native' in Two Recent Taiwanese Documentaries; H.S.Liao PART II: RECONSIDERING MAINSTREAM GENRES Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China; X.Zhang Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema; M.Christopher De-Freezing Notions of the Indian Mythological; V.T.Vardhan The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre; V.Vitali From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera; T.Trifonova PART III: GENRE AND CROSS-CULTURAL REPRESENTATION (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle; A.Karpovich The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime's Dreams of Europe; C.van Staden The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of 'Asia' in Bengali Films; M.Mukherjee Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever; F.Chan East Asian Pop Culture; Chua Beng Huat Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349323039
• ISBN13: 9781349323036
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"