Cover -- Acknowledgment -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction: Locating "Asia" in the Cinematic Cold War -- Sangjoon Lee and Darlene Machell Espeña -- Part One: Cinematic Constructions of the Cold War in Asia -- 2. Taiwanese-Language Cinema as Cold War Industry and Culture: Compliance without Commitment -- Chris Berry -- 3. Landscape, Identity, and War: The Poetic Revolutionary Cinema of North Vietnam -- Man-Fung Yip -- 4. Screening the Cold War in Cambodia: The Films of Norodom Sihanouk and Rithy Panh -- Darlene Machell Espeña -- 5. Islam and the Cultural Cold War: Tauhid and the Quest for the Modern Muslim -- Eric Sasono -- Part Two: Cold War Geopolitics in Asian Cinemas -- 6. Third World, First World: Ishihara Yūjirō as a Cold War Star -- Hiroshi Kitamura -- 7. Right Screen in Hong Kong: Chang Kuo-sin's Asia Pictures and The Heroine -- Kenny K. K. Ng -- 8. Cold War Myth from Elite Democracy to Martial Law in the Genre Cinema of Fernando Poe Jr. in the 1960s and 1970s -- Elmo Gonzaga -- 9. Silver Screen Reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War Movies and the Re-imagining of Britain's Experience in Southeast Asia -- Wen-Qing Ngoei -- 10. Ugly Americans and Indeterminate Asians: Strategies/Symptoms of Southeast Asian Representation in Cold War US Film -- Adam Knee -- Part Three: Cold War Film Genres -- 11. Counter-Occupying Americanism in South Korea and Taiwan: Taking Back the Spaces of US Base Culture in the Cold War Musical Number -- Evelyn Shih -- 12. SOS Hong Kong: Coproducing Espionage Films in Cold War Asia -- Sangjoon Lee -- 13. Cosmopolitan Kŏjedo: Swing Kids (2018) and Historical Memories of the Korean War -- Christina Klein -- 14. Spectacle of Violence and the Beiqing Masculine: Post-War Structure of Feeling in Taiwan Pulp -- Ting-Wu Cho -- Part Four: The Long Shadow of the Cold War in Contemporary Asian Cinemas.

15. Memories of the Future: Speculative Cold War Histories in Yosep Anggi Noen's The Science of Fictions and Daniel Hui's Snakeskin -- Elizabeth Wijaya -- 16. A Frozen Fraternity: Kung Fu Yoga and Cold War Archaeologies -- Nitin Govil -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Fig. 2.1. The Japanese-style restaurant in The Six Suspects, complete with sake bottles and noren door curtain. Courtesy of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. -- Fig. 2.2. The American-style nightclub in May 13th Night of Sorrow. Courtesy of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. -- Fig. 3.1. Poetic Landscapes in The Wild Field (1979) -- Fig. 3.2. Forest as poetic space in Miss Tham's Forest (1967) -- Fig. 3.3. The growing saplings as a symbol of a rejuvenating family/nation in Miss Tham's Forest (1967) -- Fig. 14.1. The brutal scene of Masa stabbing a man in the brothel, in the promotional film still of The First Error Step, aka Never Too Late to Repent. -- Fig. 15.1. Siman in The Science of Fictions. KawanKawan Media. -- Fig. 15.2. Reincarnated soldier in Snakeskin. 13 Little Pictures. -- Fig. 16.1, Kung Fu Yoga. -- Fig. 16.2. Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Annual Report 2014-2015 (cover detail).