Cosmopolitan Cinema Cross-Cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cinemas or definitive cu...

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Main Author Chan, Felicia
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London • New York I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd 2017
I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
I. B. Tauris
Edition1
SeriesWorld Cinema
Subjects
Cosmopolitanism in motion pictures
East Asia
Film & Media
Film Theory
History
Motion pictures
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Summary:Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cinemas or definitive cultural boundaries. Case studies illuminate the ambiguously gendered star persona of Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress Brigitte Lin, the fictional realism of director Jia Zhangke, the arcane process of selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and the intimate connection between cinema and identity in Hirokazu Koreeda s Afterlife (1998). Considering films, their audiences and tastemaking institutions, the book argues that cosmopolitan cinema does not smooth over difference, but rather puts it on display.”
Bibliography:IBTFilmMediaStudies2017; bloomsburyOpenAccess; txt
ISBN:1350985872
9781350985872
1780767226
9781780767222
DOI:10.5040/9781350985872