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Author Ma, Ran, author

Title Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia Ran Ma
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2020

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Series Asian visual cultures ; 6
Asian visual cultures ; 6.
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Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- Introduction Beyond the Homeland and Diaspora -- 1. The Art of the Dissensual -- 2. A Landscape Over There -- 3. Fading Hometown and Lost Paradise -- 4. Li Ying's Films of Displacement -- 5. Okinawan Dream Show -- 6. Homecoming Myanmar -- Postscript -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant yet unevenly developed independent film movements amidst global neoliberalism. These projects bear witness to and are shaped by the ongoing historical processes of inter-Asia interaction characterized by geopolitical realignment, migration, and population displacement. This study threads together case studies of internationally acclaimed filmmakers, artists, and collectives such as Zhang Lu, Kuzoku, Li Ying, Takamine Go, Yamashiro Chikako, and Midi Z, all of whose transborder journeys and cinematic imaginations disrupt static identity affiliations built upon national, ethnic, or cultural differences. This border-crossing filmmaking can be viewed as both an aesthetic practice and a political act, reframing how people, places, and their interconnections can be perceived -- thereby opening up possibilities to reimagine Asia and its connections to globalization
Notes Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Independent films -- Asia -- History
Motion pictures -- Asia -- History
Independent films
Motion pictures
Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9789048537921
9048537924