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The Asian Family in Literature and Film Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II
This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous...
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The Asian Family in Literature and Film Changing Perceptions in a New Age-East Asia, Volume I
This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family...
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Hong Kong's New Indie Cinema
This book explores 2010s Hong Kong film industry, focusing on its (presumably) independent sector. Although frequently mentioned in global film...
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Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema Looking through their Gaze
This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi...
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From Stage to Screen The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks
Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre. Film sound and music perform as...
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Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films
This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu(“Korean Wave”)...
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Urban Landscapes and National Visions in Post-Millennial South Korean Cinema From Seoul to Soul
This book explores South Korean cinema’s inimitable relationship with the urban landscape and identifies the ways in which Seoul is utilised as a...
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Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India
This book offers interdisciplinary examination of gender representations in cinema and SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) platforms in India. This...
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Screen Media and the Construction of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist China
This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from...
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Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature
Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literatureexplores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō (柴田錬三郎,...
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Streaming and Screen Culture in Asia-Pacific
This book is an interdisciplinary collection exploring the impact of emergent technologies on the production, distribution and reception of media...
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The Sentimental in Chinese Cinema
This book explores manifestations and perpetuations of the sentimental in Mainland Chinese cinema from the 1990s to the 2000s. A sentimental Chinese...
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Transformation of Contemporary Film Genre The Aesthetics of Chinese Mainland Mainstream Cinema
This book is the first one focusing on Chinese mainstream films from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on case studies, it discusses three...
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Translation Studies on Chinese Films and TV Shows
This book explores translation strategies for films and TV programs. On the basis of case studies on subtitle translations, it argues that...
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Campus Cinephilia in Neoliberal South Korea A Different Kind of Fun
Taking a transnational approach to the study of film culture, this book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean university film club to...
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Moments in Indonesian Film History Film and Popular Culture in a Develo** Society 1950–2020
This book explores Indonesian cinema, focusing on moments of unique creativity by Indonesian film artists who illuminate important but...
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Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks Voice, Ethnicity, Power
This monograph offers a cutting edge perspective on the study of Chinese film stars by advancing a “linguaphonic” model, moving away from a...
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Milkyway Image Producing Hong Kong Film Genres for Global Consumption
This book adopts an integrative research framework that primarily combines industrial and discourse analysis to investigate the company Milkyway...
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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema
Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinemaoffers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic...
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Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis Culture, Aesthetics and Vision
In a significant departure from other works on Ritwik Ghatak, this book establishes him as an auteur and a maestro on par with some of the great film...