{"product_id":"migration-and-identity-in-british-east-and-southeast-asian-cinema-9781032430478","title":"Migration and Identity in British East and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK. In \u003cem\u003eMigration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e, Leung Wing-Fai argues that this explosive context has created rich and diverse forms of storytelling and an accented cinematic language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy offering close readings of key contemporary films and positioning them in a wider slate of releases by British East and Southeast Asian filmmakers alongside Anglophone film histories in the Global North, this book sheds light on a developing field and engenders new ways of understanding British cinema and society. The author explores changing representational politics in contemporary cinema and argues for the cinematic visibility of a hitherto silenced community. Drawing on theoretical frames from sociological, film and cultural studies to critically engage with the textual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Engaged scholarship at its best – at once three deeply sensitive and extensive explorations of British East and Southeast Asian films and a powerful intervention that inscribes British ESEA culture as a structure of feeling to push back against the racist violence that followed the Covid-19 pandemic.’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Chris Berry\u003c\/strong\u003e, King’s College London \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Through an insightful analysis of three films –\u003ci\u003eShe, a Chinese; The Receptionist \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLilting\u003c\/i\u003e– Leung Wing-Fai makes an important case for British East and Southeast Asian cinema as a significant emerging film and cultural movement. She deftly demonstrates how through an accented cinema that makes visible a range of migratory perspectives from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Cambodia, filmmakers are powerfully carving out an alternative and contrapuntal creative space.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Diana Yeh, City\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of London \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: British East and Southeast Asian Cinema as a Cultural Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Time, Space and the Chinese Migrant in Guo Xiaolu's Works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Representations of Gendered Labour, Sex Work and Affect \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: \u003ci\u003eLilting: \u003c\/i\u003eOn the Accented Politics of a Queer Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019049763159,"sku":"9781032430478","price":47.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032430478.jpg?v=1750779145","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migration-and-identity-in-british-east-and-southeast-asian-cinema-9781032430478","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}