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1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Felicia Chan and Angelina Karpovich -- Part I. Non-Fiction Gengres: 1. Live or dead?: televised theatre and its audiences in Bali / Mark Hobart; 2. Law through a hybrid genre in Solomon's Choice: a case study of a reflection on law education through television in Korea / Ji Yun Park; 3. Eyes of the other: the role of Chinese women through the lens of documentary films / Cecilia J. Pang; 4. Almost propaganda but not quite: identity, modernity, and the construction of 'The Native' in Gift of life and Viva tonal / Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao -- Part II. Reconsidering Mainstream Genres: 5. Between mainstream and alternative: dialect drama in China / Xin Zhang; 6. Everything masala?: genres in Tamil cinema / Michael Christopher; 7. Defreezing notions of the Indian mythological / T. Vishnu Vardhan; 8. The Hindi horror film: notes on the realism of a marginal genre / Valentina Vitali; 9. From genre flick to art film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to kill and Pistol opera / Temenuga Trifonova -- Part III. Genre and Cross-Cultural Representation: 10. (In)Action film: genre and identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle / Angelina Karpovich; 11. The golden glow of the Alps: capitalism, globalization and Anime's dreams of Europe / Cobus van Staden; 12. The other and the neighbour: negotiating representations of 'Asia' in Bengali films / Madhuja Mukherjee; 13. Genre as cultural whimsy: taking to the road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever / Felicia Chan; 14. East Asian pop culture / Chua Beng Huat |
| Summary |
Genre in Asian Film and Television interrogates the notions of 'Asia' and 'genre' through various case studies of cross-national and cross-cultural production, representation and reception. Each essay presents new or under-exposed research on various screen media in Asia. Areas of study include national film and television cultures, the politics of national representation and the cross-cultural reception of fiction and non-fiction film, as well as the reconsideration of mainstream film and television genres. Case studies include Indian mythological adaptations and horror films, Japanese B-movies, dialect television in China, representations of Europe in Japanese animation, Indonesian reality TV, East Asian pop culture and Central Asian cinema. The collection aims to shed new light on trans- and intra-Asian discourses on self, neighbour, and nationhood, beyond the old East-West dialectic, discourses whose complexity and richness are mirrored by equally acute and compelling approaches to cinematic and televisual genres |
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"Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Asia
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Documentary films -- Asia
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Television programs -- Asia
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Film: styles & genres -- Asia.
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Film theory & criticism -- Asia.
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Television -- Asia.
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TV & society -- Asia.
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Popular culture -- Asia.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Performing Arts.
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Documentary films
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Motion pictures
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Television programs
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chan, Felicia, 1972-
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Karpovich, Angelina, 1979-
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Zhang, Xin, 1975 August 25-
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| ISBN |
9780230301900 |
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0230301908 |
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1349323039 |
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9781349323036 |
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9786613096951 |
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6613096954 |
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