Genre in Asian Film and Television

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Felicia Chan, Angelina Karpovich

      Pages 1-9

3. Non-Fiction Genres

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali

      • Mark Hobart

      Pages 13-32

   3. Law through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon’s Choice: A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education through Television in Korea

      • Ji Yun Park

      Pages 33-44

   4. Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women through the Lens of Documentary Films

      • Cecilia J. Pang

      Pages 45-60

   5. Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity and the Construction of ‘The Native’ in Gift of Life and Viva Tonal

      • Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao

      Pages 61-76

4. Reconsidering Mainstream Genres

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China

      • Xin Zhang

      Pages 79-100

   3. Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema

      • Michael Christopher

      Pages 101-114

   4. Defreezing Notions of the Indian Mythological

      • T. Vishnu Vardhan

      Pages 115-129

   5. The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre

      • Valentina Vitali

      Pages 130-148

   6. From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera

      • Temenuga Trifonova

      Pages 149-162

5. Genre and Cross-Cultural Representation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov’s The Needle

      • Angelina Karpovich

      Pages 165-177

   3. The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime’s Dreams of Europe

      • Cobus van Staden

      Pages 178-193

   4. The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of ‘Asia’ in Bengali Films

      • Madhuja Mukherjee

      Pages 194-209

   5. Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in The Bird People in China and Cold Fever

      • Felicia Chan

      Pages 210-221

   6. East Asian Pop Culture

      • Chua Beng Huat

      Pages 222-245

6. Back Matter

   Pages 246-255

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Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.

• cinema
• Europe
• film
• identity
• media
• television
• media research

'By studying screen genres in tandem with Asian cultures, this collection provides wide-ranging views of the mediatized discursive formations taking shape around a major geopolitical nexus. A richly informed and informative contribution.'

- Rey Chow, Duke University, USA

'This is a welcome, necessary and indeed long-overdue collection on Asian film and television, conceived on the basis of the highly original genres they either generated or creatively remodelled. The impressive array of specialised contributors, as well as the detailed textual and contextual analyses they undertake at each chapter, invariably stand out for their unique insights and sovereign independence from the usual paradigms provided by Western genres. This will be required reading for anyone interested in Asia and its formidable audiovisual output.'

- Lúcia Nagib, Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds, UK

'Genre in Asian Film and Television shows that there is still a need for this kind of study by demonstrating ways in which multiple Asian cinemas can be discussed collectively without losing sight of cultural specificity.' - Frames Cinema Journal

• Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) and the Centre for Screen Studies, University of Manchester, UK

  Felicia Chan

• Brunel University, UK

  Angelina Karpovich

• Chongqing, China

  Xin Zhang

MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER PhD candidate, Berlin, Germany CHUA BENG HUAT Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore MARK HOBART Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at the Centre for Media and Film Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK HSIEN-HAO SEBASTIAN LIAO Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan MADHUJA MUKHERJEE Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India CECILIA J. PANG Associate Professor and Head of Performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA JI YUN PARK Lecturer at the University of Paris 8, France TEMENUGA TRIFONOVA Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto, Canada VISHNU T. VARDHAN PhD candidate at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster and the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India COBUS VAN STADEN PhD graduate from the University of Nagoya, Japan, and currently working in Johannesburg for the South African Broadcasting Corporation VALENTINA VITALI Lecturer in Film History and Theory at the University of East London, UK

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