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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume examine Asian video cultures—from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India—in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media.
Trade Review"Asian Video Cultures addresses a glaring omission in contemporary Western film and media scholarship in such a rich and imaginative way that it will give the book lasting significance as a fundamental reference across media studies. Featuring rich, thought-provoking essays and a major, agenda-setting introduction, this is a milestone collection." -- Meaghan Morris, coeditor of Gender, Media, and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific "Asian Video Cultures addresses the continent as an always-emerging formation, rather than just a region. By doing so, it is able to mount a series of powerful, ethnographically grounded theoretical provocations on contemporary media culture. We revisit ideas of participation and the public, the status of mediation in the bioinformatic world, globalization, and work. This outstanding collection helps us put into perspective the overly North American debate on digital media." -- Ravi Sundaram, author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. Infrastructures
1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China / Jenny Chio 35
2. EngageMedia: The
Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia / Patricia R. Zimmerman 54
3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices / Chia-chi Wu 72
4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology / Marc Steinberg 91
5. In Access: Digital Video and the User / Nishant Shah 114
Part II. Intimacies
6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh 133
7. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung 158
8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey 176
9. The Asianization of
Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works / Feng-Mei Heberer 198
Part III. Speculations
10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions / S. V. Srinivas 217
11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture / Michelle Cho 240
12.
Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection / Joshua Neves 266
13. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh 288
14. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson 307
Bibliography 327
Contributors 349
Index 353
