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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
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Routledge advances in film studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Transnational Asian Identitiesin Pan-Pacific CinemasThe Reel Asian Exchange; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Reel Asian Exchange; Part I : Remixing/Remaking Formulas; 1. Hong Kong Noir: American Film Noir and Asian Innovation, 1956-1966; 2. Drunken Master Meets the Monkey King: Transnational Chinese Identities in Action; 3. Shoot-Out in Hokkaido: The "Wanderer" (Wataridori) Series and the Politics of Transnationality; 4. Cultural Odor in the Global Order: Globalization and the Raced Japanese Body; Part II : Perception/Reception |
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5. Learning BushidÅ from Abroad: Japanese Reactions to The Last Samurai6. Illegitimate Gloss: From Anna Leonowens' Tuptim to Contemporary Thai American Sexploitation; 7. Translating Hollywood Film to Chinese Audience: The Role of Agency and Appropriation in Transnational Cultural Encounters; 8. Questions of Cultural Proximity and the "Asian Popular": South Korean Audiences Watching Zhang Yimou's Martial Arts Blockbusters; 9. Trans-Action: Epic Tensions and Ethics of Memory in East Asian Co-Productions; Part III : Female Fandom/ Stardom |
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10. Migrating West ... to East Transnational Chinese Canadians in Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema11. From National Allegory to Global Commodity: The Cinematic Images of Gong Li; 12. The Transnational Journey of O Ren Ishii: The American Cultifi cation of the Asian Female Avenger; Part IV : Emerging Subjectivities; 13. Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul; 14. Adopted: Crossing (out) Boundaries of Adoptee Kinship and Global Belonging; 15. Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama: Seven Orphans of Cape No. 7; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, ""marked transnationality, "" and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The topics explored in this collection include the innovation of Hollywood generic formulas into 1950's and 1960's Hong Kong and Japanese films; the examination of Thai and Japanese raced and gendered id |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Funnell, Lisa
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| ISBN |
9780203181393 |
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0203181395 |
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