The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Zhen.

Contributor:

Lee, Sangjoon.

Mukherjee, Debashree.

Paramaditha, Intan.

Series:

Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Asia--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Study and teaching--Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (587 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Summary:

Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas and charts new constellations in the field with significance far beyond Asian cinema studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Trans-Asian Cinemas at Home in the World

Section I Cine-activism and Feminist Aesthetics

Introduction

1 A Screen in the Crowd: Film Societies and Political Protest in Bangladesh

2 Genres of Ecofeminism: Women Filmmakers in India and the Environment

3 Riding the Waves: An Interview with Yim Soon-rye

4 Through the Lens of South Korean Cine-feminism: House of Hummingbird (2018) and Moving On (2020)

5 Rewriting History, Changing the Story: An Interview with Anocha Suwichakornpong

6 Transnational Women's Cinema in Southeast Asia: Mouly Surya's Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

7 Taiwan Queer Cinema, Marriage Equality, and Homo(trans)nationalism

8 Love in Pacific Time: Asian Screen Culture in Vancouver

Section II Mediating Place: Colonial, National, and Trans-Asian Imaginaries

9 What Is "Asian Cinema" in Japan?: Film and Political Economy in the 1940s

10 Filming Taiwan Between a Quest for Artistic Purity and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China: The Case of Taiwan Wangshi (My Bittersweet Taiwan, 2004)

11 In the Name of Love: Screen Representations of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples (1920s-1940s)

12 Desiring Nanyang, Nation, and Home: Fictions of Belonging in Two Rediscovered Postwar Films from Singapore

13 Where Is Shangri-La? Imagining Kathmandu in Film

14 Affective-Scape/ing in Zhang Lu's Inter-Asian Quartet

15 Postcards from Russia: Left Discourse and Telugu Cinema

Section III Trans-Border Connections: Infrastructures and Desires

16 Media Topographies of East Asia: Cinema, Cables, Wirelessness, and the (Somewhat) Material Imaginaries of Territory.

17 Looking Out and on the Move: Aesthetics of Infrastructure in Recent Singapore Cinema

18 North Korea's International Co-production Ventures: Nation and the Post-national

19 Trans-Asian Circuits of Cinema and Media Exchange Between Australia and Asia

20 Global Stories, Local Audiences: Dubbing Netflix in India

21 Webtoon-Based Korean Films on Netflix: Shifting Media Ecology in the Digital Platform Era

22 Exile at the Edges: Donald Richie at the Pinch Point Between Japan and the World

23 Trans-Pacific Connection and Cine Nikkei in Peru: A Conversation

Section IV Beyond Genre: Modes, Motifs, Memories

24 The Melodramatic Mode in Asian Cinema: Usmar Ismail's Lewat Djam Malam (After the Curfew)

25 Bong Joon-ho's Parasite as a Remake of Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid: Creating an Aesthetic Genealogy Within South Korean Cinema

26 Melting the Iron Curtain: Political Immediacy, Metal-morphosis, and the Caricatured Western Leaders in Agitprop Animation in Socialist China, 1949-65

27 The "Mirrored" Cultural Revolution - The Geopolitical Making of Apolitical Hero in Chang Cheh's The Assassin

28 The Vernacular Sonorities of the Memory Film in Southeast Asia: Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) and Big Boy (2012)

29 Global Aspirations/Local Affiliations: Exploring the Tensions of "Post-Crisis" Thai Cinema, 1997-2004

30 Revisiting the Face Veil in Post-Pandemic Times: The Humane Visual Ethics of Indonesian Islamic Filmmaking

31 Karma-Image

Insight-Image: On Buddhism and the Cinema

32 Personality and Morality in Screen Performance: Hong Kong Film Criticism and Social Reform of the 1920s

Section V Independent Practice: Networks, Labor, and Voices at the Margins

33 "Still Doing It Themselves, with a Little Help from Friends": Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia Two Decades Hence.

34 Slippers Outside the Door: An Annotated Interview with Tan Pin Pin

35 Let's Love Hong Kong: Hyper-Density, Virtual Possibility, and Queer Women in Hong Kong Independent Film

36 Care in Filming, Change by Love

37 Domestic Temporalities and Film Practice: Los Otros, Quezon City, and Forum Lenteng, Jakarta

38 Unstable Pixels, Modular Selves: Digital Subjectivity in Chinese Independent Animation

39 Experimentation and Transnational Influences: Documentary Film in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

40 Filming Resistance: A Conversation with Deepa Dhanraj

Section VI Archives, Festivals, and Film Pedagogy

41 Festivalizations and Cultural Constructions of "Asian Cinema"

42 Curating the City: The Urban Lens Film Festival

43 To Be Continued: Women Make Waves International Film Festival

44 Film Festival Journeys - Past, Present, Future: A Conversation with Roger Garcia

45 Reflection on Film Restoration, Acculturatie and Democracy: The Case Studies of Lewat Djam Malam and Aladin

46 Thai Film Archive and Early Thai Queer Cinema

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781040038079

1040038077

9781040038048

1040038042

9781003266952

1003266959

OCLC:

1431979497