ABSTRACT
Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas and charts new constellations in the field with significance far beyond Asian cinema studies.
Asian cinema studies – at the intersection of film/media studies and area studies – has rapidly transformed under the impact of globalization, compounded by the resurgence of a variety of nationalist discourses as well as counter-discourses, new socio-political movements, and the possibilities afforded by digital media. Differentiated experiences of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have further heightened interest in the digital everyday and the renewed geopolitical divide between East and West, and between North and South. Thematized into six sections, the 46 chapters in this anthology address established paradigms of scholarship and viewership in Asian cinemas like extreme genres, cinephilia, festivals, and national cinema, while also highlighting political and archival concerns that firmly situate Asian cinemas within local and translocal milieus. Underrepresented cinemas of North Korea, Bangladesh, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Cambodia, appear here amidst a broader cross-regional, comparative approach.
An ideal resource for film, media, cultural and Asian studies researchers, students, and scholars, as well as informed readers with an interest in Asian cinemas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|89 pages
Cine-activism and Feminist Aesthetics
chapter 4|10 pages
Through the Lens of South Korean Cine-feminism
chapter 6|12 pages
Transnational Women's Cinema in Southeast Asia
section Section II|81 pages
Mediating Place
chapter 10|10 pages
Filming Taiwan Between a Quest for Artistic Purity and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China
chapter 11|11 pages
In the Name of Love
chapter 12|12 pages
Desiring Nanyang, Nation, and Home
section Section III|88 pages
Trans-Border Connections
chapter 16|9 pages
Media Topographies of East Asia
chapter 17|10 pages
Looking Out and On the Move
chapter 21|10 pages
Webtoon-Based Korean Films on Netflix
section Section IV|102 pages
Beyond Genre
chapter 24|10 pages
The Melodramatic Mode in Asian Cinema
chapter 25|10 pages
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite as a Remake of Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid
chapter 26|11 pages
Melting the Iron Curtain
chapter 28|12 pages
The Vernacular Sonorities of the Memory Film in Southeast Asia
chapter 29|11 pages
Global Aspirations/Local Affiliations
chapter 30|9 pages
Revisiting the Face Veil in Post-Pandemic Times
chapter 32|12 pages
Personality and Morality in Screen Performance
section Section V|91 pages
Independent Practice
chapter 33|10 pages
“Still Doing It Themselves, with a Little Help from Friends”
chapter 35|9 pages
Let's Love Hong Kong
chapter 37|9 pages
Domestic Temporalities and Film Practice
chapter 38|12 pages
Unstable Pixels, Modular Selves
chapter 39|10 pages
Experimentation and Transnational Influences
section Section VI|71 pages
Archives, Festivals, and Film Pedagogy