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Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Lin Feng

    1. School of Arts, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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  2. James Aston

    1. School of Arts, University of Hull, Hull, UK

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  • Addresses a number of urgent and pertinent issues such as genre construction and distribution and consumption practices
  • Celebrates cinematic creativity through the interrogation of the narrative and aesthetics of film genres developed in East Asian cinemas
  • Expands scholarly discussion of the rich heritage and fast changing landscape of filmmaking of East Asian cinemas

Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • James Aston, Lin Feng
    Pages 1-11

  4. Development of Genre film and Film Genre in East Asia Cinemas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-97
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    2. Fantasy, Vampirism and Genre/Gender Wars on the Chinese Screen of the Roaring 1920s

      • Shaoyi Sun
      Pages 99-118

    3. Premodern History and the Contemporary South Korean Period Blockbuster

      • Louisa Mitchell
      Pages 119-136

    4. Chinese Censorship, Genre Mediation, and the Puzzle Films of Leste Chen

      • Gary Bettinson
      Pages 137-162

  5. The Politics of Genre Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-166
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    2. Critiquing New Generational Japanese Horror: “Youthful Fatalisms, Old Aesthetics”

      • Dave McCaig, Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
      Pages 167-190

    3. Genre and Censorship: The Crime Film in Late Colonial Hong Kong

      • Kristof Van den Troost
      Pages 191-216

    4. Old Shanghai and Film Noir Cross Over

      • Lin Feng
      Pages 217-246

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 247-266
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About this book

This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and exhibition practices of East Asian genre films, intra-regional creative flow of screen culture, and genre’s creative response to censorship. The volume expands the scholarly discussion of the rich heritage and fast-changing landscape of filmmaking in East Asian cinemas. Confronting the complex interaction between genres, filmic narrative and aesthetics, film history and politics, and cross-cultural translation, this book not only reevaluates genre’s role in film production, distribution, and consumption, but also tackles several under-explored areas in film studies and transnational cinema, such as the history of East Asian commercial cinema, the East Asian film industry, and cross-media and cross-market film dissemination.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Arts, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Lin Feng

  • School of Arts, University of Hull, Hull, UK

    James Aston

About the editors

Lin Feng is the Director of Studies of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research primarily focuses on Chinese and transnational cinemas, cinematic cities, star studies, and the representation and reception of East Asia in Anglophone cinemas.

 James Aston is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Hull, UK. His research primarily focuses on contemporary global horror and East Asian cinemas. He is the author of Hardcore Horror in the 21st Century: Production, Marketing and Consumption (2018). 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond

  • Editors: Lin Feng, James Aston

  • Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55077-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55076-9Published: 17 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55079-0Published: 17 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55077-6Published: 16 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5935

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 266

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Cinema and TV, Genre, Asian Culture, Global Cinema and TV

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