Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

   1. Introduction Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

      • Corey K. Creekmur

      Pages 1-8

3. India

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City

      • Lawrence Liang

      Pages 11-27

   3. Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Popular Hindi Cinema

      • Corey K. Creekmur

      Pages 29-43

   4. Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the “New Bollywood”

      • Meenakshi Gigi Durham

      Pages 45-62

   5. Islamic “Terrorism” and Visions of Justice in Khalid Mohamed’s F IZA

      • Priya Kumar

      Pages 63-82

4. Southeast Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. The Poverty of Justice: Postcolonial Condition and Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema

      • Rolando B. Tolentino

      Pages 85-100

   3. Shadowboxing with the Censors: A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story

      • Karen Turner

      Pages 101-120

5. Northeast Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Oshima Nagisa’s Ai no korida Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema

      • Hikari Hori

      Pages 123-139

   3. Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in Recent South Korean Cinema:The Road Taken (Seontaek) and Its Genre

      • Do-Hyun Han

      Pages 141-157

6. China

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Did Qiu Ju Get Good Legal Advice?

      • Jerome A. Cohen, Joan Lebold Cohen

      Pages 161-173

   3. Blood in the Bathroom: Shanghai Triad as Gangster Noir

      • Mary Farquhar

      Pages 175-194

   4. Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen

      • Alison W. Conner

      Pages 195-211

   5. Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen

      • Yingjin Zhang

      Pages 213-230

7. Back Matter

   Pages 231-238

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This book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The contributing authors cross the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema.

• cinema
• film
• gender
• terrorism

"Cinema may have always been an international language, but the law remains largely defined by territorial boundaries. In these circumstances, the country-by-country essays in this remarkable anthology considering how the law is represented and how the law shapes cinema in Asia are both necessary and original. In fact, many of the accounts of gangsters on-screen and off are quite an eye-opener! Each essay is autonomous, rigorous and highly original. Ranging from censorship to film piracy and courtroom dramas in India, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan and China, Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia is as diverse, lively, fast-moving and engaging as those crime films we all love." - Chris Berry,Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London'Creekmur and Sidel's book makes for fascinating reading and will make a definite impact in a field which should be the subject of greater study. Crossing the divide between on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema, each chapter, whether about China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, or Vietnam, offers a different and interesting slice of one of these kinds of intersection, containing insights which should be of interest to anyone interested in law and cinema, Asia and globalization, popular culture in Asia, Asian law, or law and aesthetics in Asia. The book smoothly integrates consideration of the legal environment in which cinema operates, the legal environment it attempts to portray, and the legal environment it seeks to influence. Implicit in the actual coverage is that illegality is just as important as legality in all of the national contexts discussed. This is a profoundly creative contribution to a growing area of social study.'

- Andrew Harding, Professor of Asia-Pacific Law, University of Victoria,British Columbia"Just as the forces of globalization have done much to permeate the borders of sovereign nations, so, too, this important essay collection breaks down the barriers of academic disciplines. With its gathering together of scholars from law, cinema, art history, sociology, and mass communications, among other fields, this is a truly interdisciplinary work. Moving well beyond mere image studies of law, lawyers or criminality, the scholarship represented here situates Asian cinema within larger discourses of state control, film piracy, and even the space of the cinema itself. Groundbreaking and pioneering are terms often loosely applied; not so in this case." - David Desser, University of Illinois "This fine collection of essays is a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary discourses on cinema and legal studies...an absorbing collection of essays about an absorbing series of issues." - Michael Palmer,Professor of Law and Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law at the University of London, and a Visiting Professor of Law at People's University, Beijing, California Western Law School, San Diego, and the University of Notre Dame London Law Centre

• Departments of English, University of Iowa, USA

  Corey K. Creekmur

• International Affairs, University of Iowa, USA

  Mark Sidel

COREY K. CREEKMUR is Associate Professor of English and Cinema, Comparative Literature Director, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, USA.

MARK SIDEL is Professor of Law and International Affairs, University of Iowa, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, USA.

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