Multiple modernities : cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia / edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lau, Jenny Kwok Wah, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--East Asia.

Motion pictures.

Popular culture--East Asia.

Popular culture.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Globalization and youthful subculture: the Chinese sixth-generation films at the dawn of the new century / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau

Marx or market: Chinese rock and the sound of fury / Jeroen de Kloet

Reexamining the East and the West: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, "Orientalism," and popular culture / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Stranger than Tokyo: space and race in postnational Japanese cinema / Yomota Inuhiko, translated by Aaron Gerow

Discourse on modernization in 1900s Korean cinema / Han Ju Kwak

Youth in crisis: national and cultural identity in new South Korean cinema / Frances Gateward

The fragmented commonplace: alternative arts and cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong / Hector Rodriguez

Immediacy, parody, and image in the mirror: is there a postmodern scene in Beijing? / Dai Jinhua, translated by Jing M. Wang

Terms of transition: the action film, postmodernism, and issues of an east-west perspective / Chuck Kleinhans

Consuming Asia: Chinese and Japanese popular culture and the American imaginary / David Desser

Of executioners and courtesans: the performance of gender in Hong Kong cinema of the 1990s / Augusta Lee Palmer and Jenny Kwok Wah Lau

The woman with broken palm lines: subject, agency, fortune-telling, and women in Taiwanese television drama / Lin Szu-Ping.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1566399858

1566399866

OCLC:

49566558