Overview
- Serves as a handbook to the study of Asian cinema by offering a variety of examples of how the category of “Asia” contributes to the analysis of specific films, directors, stars, genres, and cultural institutions such as film festivals
- Provides models for analyzing Asian cinema transnationally as well as in relation to the nation-state, the region, and the world at large
- Expands the field by including chapters on neglected cinemas of West, Central, and Southeast Asia
- Scrutinizes the impact of the economic and political rise of China and India on global film
- Includes contributions from established scholars in the field as well as fresh voices and perspectives from emerging researchers
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Defining Asian Cinema in the 21st Century
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Locating the New Asian Cinema: Changing Aesthetics, Distribution Networks, and Global Connections
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Asian History in the Making
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gina Marchetti is Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. In 1995, her book, Romance and the "Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (University of California, 1993), won the award for best book in the area of cultural studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her recent book is Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (University Of Hawai'i Press, 2018).
Tan See Kam is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Department of English, University of Macau. He is Chair of the Asian Cinema Studies Society and Chief Editor of Asian Cinema.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema
Editors: Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Gina Marchetti, See Kam Tan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95822-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95821-4Published: 14 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95980-8Published: 11 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95822-1Published: 04 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 743
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Asian Culture