Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide

Dimitris Eleftheriotis; Gary Needham

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2006

Asian Cinemas

A Reader and Guide

Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468039

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About this book

Asian cinema is an area of increasing interest in Anglo-US film studies while Asian films are now widely distributed and popular with western audiences. The fascination with Asian cinema must be examined in the context of a complex and often problematic relationship between western scholars, students, viewers and Asian films. This book, therefore, examines a number of detailed case studies (such as the films of Ozu, Bruce Lee, Hong Kong and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, Taiwanese directors and Fifth Generation Chinese cinema) and uses them in order to investigate the limitations of Anglo-US theoretical models and critical paradigms. By engaging the readers with familiar areas of critical discourse (such as postcolonial criticism, 'national cinema', 'genre', 'authorship' and 'stardom') the book aims to introduce within such contexts the 'unfamiliar' case studies which will be explored in depth and detail. The advantage of such an approach is that it works with the dynamics of familiarity/unfamiliarity and resists the temptation to construct Asian cinemas as a gallery of exotic objects that might be particularly fascinating but remain deeply distant and foreign.

KeyFeatures:

A comprehensive study of Asian cinemas, including Hong Kong, Japan, China, India, Turkey and Taiwan
An accessible guide for the study and research of Asian cinema which addresses undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers
Each section contains a contextualising introduction
Includes key texts by Ackbar Abbas, Rey Chow, David Desser, Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Nezih Erdo

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
INTRODUCTION Dimitris Eleftheriotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I APPROACHING ASIAN CINEMAS
SECTION 1 ORIENTALISM AND JAPANESE CINEMA
JAPANESE CINEMA AND ORIENTALISM Gary Needham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
1 A FILMMAKER FOR ALL SEASONS David Desser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING RADICAL: THE DISCIPLINE OF FILM STUDIES AND THE POST-COLONIAL WORLD ORDER Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3 GODZILLA AND THE JAPANESE NIGHTMARE: WHEN THEM! IS U.S. Chon Noriega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4 MONSTER ISLAND: GODZILLA AND JAPANESE SCI-FI/HORROR/FANTASY Philip Brophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
SECTION 2 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM AND HONG KONG CINEMA
THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG CINEMA Gary Needham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5 THE NEW HONG KONG CINEMA ANDTHE DÉJÀ DISPARU Ackbar Abbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
6 KUNG FU: NEGOTIATING NATIONALISM AND MODERNITY Siu Leung Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
7 UNDER ‘WESTERN EYES’: THE PERSONAL ODYSSEY OF HUANG FEI-HONG IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA Tony Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
SECTION 3 CROSS-CULTURAL CRITICISM AND CHINESE CINEMA
CROSS-CULTURAL CRITICISM AND CHINESE CINEMA Dimitris Eleftheriotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
8 PROBLEMATIZING CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF WOMEN IN THE RECENT CHINESE CINEMA E. Ann Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
9 SEEING MODERN CHINA:TOWARD ATHEORY OF ETHNIC SPECTATORSHIP Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
10 YELLOW EARTH: WESTERN ANALYSIS ANDA NON-WESTERN TEXT Esther C. M. Yau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
PART II FRAMEWORKS OF STUDY
SECTION 4 NATIONAL CINEMA:THE CASE OF TURKEY
TURKISH NATIONAL CINEMA Dimitris Eleftheriotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
11 NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AMBIVALENCE IN THE TURKISH MELODRAMA BETWEEN 1965 AND 1975 Nezih Erdoğan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
12 TRANSLATING MODERNITY: REMAKES IN TURKISH CINEMA Ahmet Gürata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
13 MUTE BODIES, DISEMBODIED VOICES: NOTES ON SOUND IN TURKISH POPULAR CINEMA Nezih Erdoğan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
SECTION 5 GENRE CRITICISM AND POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
GENRE CRITICISM AND POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA Dimitris Eleftheriotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
14 INDIAN CINEMA: PLEASURES AND POPULARITY Rosie Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
15 ADDRESSING THE SPECTATOR OF A ‘THIRD WORLD’ NATIONAL CINEMA:THE BOMBAY ‘SOCIAL’ FILM OFTHE 1940S AND 1950S Ravi S. Vasudevan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
16 ‘HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN?’ – CINEPHILIA AND INDIAN FILMS Lalitha Gopalan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
17 SHIFTING PITCH: THE BOLLYWOOD SONG SEQUENCE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MARKET Ian Garwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
SECTION 6 QUESTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP AND TAIWANESE CINEMA
FILM AUTHORSHIP AND TAIWANESE CINEMA Gary Needham and I-Fen Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
ISSUES OF AUTHORSHIP Gary Needham and I-Fen Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
18 OZU AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER IN HOU HSIAO-HSIEN Gary Needham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
19 TOKYO LOVE STORY AND NY BAGELS: EAST-WEST CULTURAL ENCOUNTER IN EDWARD YANG’S TAIPEI STORY I-Fen Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
20 THE TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA OFANG LEE Julianne Pidduck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
SECTION 7 STARDOM:THE CASE OF BRUCE LEE
BRUCE LEE: STARDOM AND IDENTITY Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
21 BRUCE LEE: NARCISSUS AND THE LITTLE DRAGON Stephen Teo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
22 HAN’S ISLAND REVISITED: ENTER THE DRAGON AS TRANSNATIONAL CULT FILM Leon Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	426
23 FISTS OF FURY: DISCOURSES OF RACE AND MASCULINITY IN THE MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA Yvonne Tasker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
INDEX OF FILMS/TV PROGRAMMES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
INDEX OF KEY TERMS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	470

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 488
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9781474468039