East Asian Cinemas : Exploring Transnational Connections on Film.
Title:
East Asian Cinemas : Exploring Transnational Connections on Film.
Author:
Hunt, Leon.
ISBN:
9780857712271
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Series:
Tauris World Cinema
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributers -- 1. Introduction - Leon Hunt & Leung Wing-Fai -- Part One: Global Encounters of the First Kind -- 2. Remaking 'Seven Samurai' in World Cinema - David Desser -- 3. Fashioning Modernity: Hollywood and the Hong Kong Musical 1957-64 - Gary Needham -- 4. Electric Shadow of an Airplane: Hong Kong Cinema, World Cinema - Charles Leary -- Part Two: All Changing on the Eastern Front -- 5. 'Internal Affairs' and 'Kung Fu Hustle': Panacea, Placebo and Hong Kong Cinema - Leung Wing-Fai -- 6. Contemporary South Korean Cinema: 'National Conjunction' and 'Diversity' - Chris Howard -- 7. The Language of the Blockbuster: Promotion, 'Princess Mononoke' and the 'Daihitto' in Japanese Film Culture - Rayna Deniso -- Part Three: Made in Translation - Transnational Identities -- 8. 'Suriyothai' Becomes 'Legend': National Identity as Global Currency - Adam Knee -- 9. Last Life in the Universe: Nationality, technology, Authorship - Brian Ruh -- 10. From 'Three Godfathers' to 'Tokyo Godfathers': Signifying Social Change in a Transnational Context - David Scott Diffrien -- 11. Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Hayashi Kaizo's 'The Most Terrible Time in My Life' - Theresa L. Geller -- Part Four: How the West Was Won? Asianisation and Beyond -- 12. Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood - Gary G. Xu -- 13. Salute to Mr. Vengeance!: The Making of a Transnational Auteur Park Chan-wook - Nikki J.Y. Lee -- 14. Asiaphilia, Asianisation and the Gatekeeper Auteur: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson - Leon Hunt -- 15. Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures - Sheng-mei Ma -- Index.
Abstract:
Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as arthouse, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. It examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the 'Asianisation' of western cinema. It explores the dialogue not only between 'East' and 'West', but between different cinemas in the Asia Pacific. What do these trends mean for global cinema? How are co-productions and crossover films changing the nature of Hollywood and East Asian cinemas? The book includes in-depth studies of Park Chan-wook, 'Infernal Affairs', 'Seven Samurai', and 'Princess Mononoke'.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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