Genre in Asian Film and Television

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.

'By studying screen genres in tandem with Asian cultures, this collection provides wide-ranging views of the mediatized discursive formations taking shape around a major geopolitical nexus. A richly informed and informative contribution.'

• Rey Chow, Duke University, USA

'This is a welcome, necessary and indeed long-overdue collection on Asian film and television, conceived on the basis of the highly original genres they either generated or creatively remodelled. The impressive array of specialised contributors, as well as the detailed textual and contextual analyses they undertake at each chapter, invariably stand out for their unique insights and sovereign independence from the usual paradigms provided by Western genres. This will be required reading for anyone interested in Asia and its formidable audiovisual output.'

• Lúcia Nagib, Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds, UK

'Genre in Asian Film and Television shows that there is still a need for this kind of study by demonstrating ways in which multiple Asian cinemas can be discussed collectively without losing sight of cultural specificity.' - Frames Cinema Journal

Autorentext
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER PhD candidate, Berlin, Germany CHUA BENG HUAT Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore MARK HOBART Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at the Centre for Media and Film Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK HSIEN-HAO SEBASTIAN LIAO Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan MADHUJA MUKHERJEE Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India CECILIA J. PANG Associate Professor and Head of Performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA JI YUN PARK Lecturer at the University of Paris 8, France TEMENUGA TRIFONOVA Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto, Canada VISHNU T. VARDHAN PhD candidate at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster and the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India COBUS VAN STADEN PhD graduate from the University of Nagoya, Japan, and currently working in Johannesburg for the South African Broadcasting Corporation VALENTINA VITALI Lecturer in Film History and Theory at the University of East London, UK

Inhalt
Introduction; F.Chan & A.Karpovich PART I: NON-FICTION GENRES Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali; M.Hobart Law Through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon's Choice : A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education Through Television in Korea; J.Y.Park Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women Through the Lens of Documentary Films; C.J.Pang Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity, and the Construction of 'The Native' in Two Recent Taiwanese Documentaries; H.S.Liao PART II: RECONSIDERING MAINSTREAM GENRES Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China; X.Zhang Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema; M.Christopher De-Freezing Notions of the Indian Mythological; V.T.Vardhan The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre; V.Vitali From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera ; T.Trifonova PART III: GENRE AND CROSS-CULTURAL REPRESENTATION (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle ; A.Karpovich The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime's Dreams of Europe; C.van Staden The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of 'Asia' in Bengali Films; M.Mukherjee Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever ; F.Chan East Asian Pop Culture; Chua Beng Huat Index