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Book SynopsisThis book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.
Trade Review'This new project will encourage its readers to rethink East Asian cinema not as a catalogue of snapshot profiles of individual national cinemas but as a vibrant synergetic field of cooperation and contention where new initiatives are launched, new ideas are created, and new possibilities are imagined.'
- Professor Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego, USA
Table of ContentsIntroduction; V.P.Y.Lee PART I: FILMMAKING, FILM INDUSTRY, AND THE FILM MARKET Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas; S.Hwee Lim Hollywood's Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema; Y.Hong & X.Zhiwei PART II: GENRE AND TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETICS Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the 'Desert of the Real': Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style; G.Marchetti 007 in Late Colonial Hong Kong: Technology, Masculinity, and Sly Humour in Stephen Chow's From Beijing with Love ; E.K.W.Yu Regional and Generic Conflation of Asian Horror: the Asian Horror Omnibus Seen in Three and Three … Extremes ; N.J.Y.Lee J-Horror and Kimchi Western: Mobile Genres in East Asian Cinemas; V.P.Y.Lee PART III: SCREEN CULTURES AND IDENTITY POLITICS Rethinking a New National Identity in Heisei Japan: Neo-conservatism and Japanese Cinema; K.Shuk-ting Yau Cinematic Imagination of Border-Crossing in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: Comrades, Almost a Love Story and Durian, Durian ; T.M.Huang In the name of East Asia: practices and consequences of recent international film co-productions in East Asia; T.Wei PART IV: INTERVIEWS: FILMMAKERS ON FILMMAKING Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-production; S.Deboer 'Working Through China' in the Pan-Asian Film Network: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Singapore; V.P.Y.Lee Index
