East Asian Cinemas Regional Flows and Global Transformations

This 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.

Vivian P. Y. Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Her articles on Chinese cinemas have appeared in academic journals and anthologies including Scope, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Chinese Films in Focus II.

Introduction; 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
Representations of Cross-Border People Flow in the Global City-Region of Hong Kong and 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