East Asian Cinemas

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Mapping East Asia’s Cinemascape

   1. Introduction: Mapping East Asia’s Cinemascape

      • Vivian P. Y. Lee

      Pages 1-12

3. Filmmaking, Film Industry and the Film Market

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas

      • Song Hwee Lim

      Pages 15-32

   3. Hollywood’s Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema

      • Hong Yin, Zhiwei Xiao

      Pages 33-57

4. Genre and Transnational Aesthetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the “Desert of the Real”: Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style

      • Gina Marchetti

      Pages 61-86

   3. 007 in Late Colonial Hong Kong: Technology, Masculinity, and Sly Humor in Stephen Chow’s From Beijing with Love

      • Eric K. W. Yu

      Pages 87-102

   4. “Asia” as Regional Signifier and Transnational Genre-Branding: The Asian Horror Omnibus Movies Three and Three … Extremes

      • Nikki J. Y. Lee

      Pages 103-117

   5. J-Horror and Kimchi Western: Mobile Genres in East Asian Cinemas

      • Vivian P. Y. Lee

      Pages 118-141

5. Screen Cultures and Identity Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Rethinking a New National Identity in Heisei Japan: Neo-Conservatism and Japanese Cinema

      • Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau

      Pages 145-169

   3. Cinematic Imagination of Border-Crossing in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: Comrades, Almost a Love Story and Durian, Durian

      • Tsung-yi Michelle Huang

      Pages 170-188

   4. In the Name of “Asia”: Practices and Consequences of Recent International Film Co-Productions in East Asia

      • Ti Wei

      Pages 189-210

6. Interviews: Filmmakers on Filmmaking

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-Production

      • Stephanie DeBoer

      Pages 213-234

   3. “Working Through China” in the Pan-Asian Film Network: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Singapore

      • Vivian P. Y. Lee

      Pages 235-248

7. Back Matter

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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.

• China
• cinema
• film
• Framing
• Hollywood
• humour
• identity
• Japan
• Korea
• national identity
• postmodernism
• technology

'This new project will encourage its readers to rethink East Asian cinema not as a catalogue of snapshot profiles of individual national cinemas but as a vibrant synergetic field of cooperation and contention where new initiatives are launched, new ideas are created, and new possibilities are imagined.'

- Professor Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego, USA

• Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, China

  Vivian P. Y. Lee

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

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