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Fan Bingbing and the Sound of the Rising China
This chapter concentrates on Fan Bingbing’s vocal persona against the backdrop of the global rise of the Chinese film industry. It begins with an...
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Introduction
Both Cuba and the United States have complex histories of discrimination, oppression, and advances related to sexuality. A comparison of two...
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Tang Wei’s Stardom in and Beyond Sinophone Media Culture: Linguistic Versatility, Public Reception, Chinese-Korean Cultural Imagination
As the beginning chapter of the second part of “Sinophone Cinematic Space,” this chapter explores the star power of Tang Wei, an emergent Chinese...
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Manipulating the Gaze in La novia del desierto (dir. Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, 2017)
Andrea Meador Smith examines La novia del desierto/The Desert Bride (Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, 2017) through the lens of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s...
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Introduction: Beyond Expanding Markets, Spanish-Language Television and Its Diasporic Latinx Urban Audiences
This chapter reviews some of the distinctive features of Spanish-language television and the importance of conducting research in the urban sphere,...
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Redefining Latinidad: Latinxs in Miami and Madrid and Brazilian Identity in Diasporic Perspective
This chapter explores the formation of Latinx identity, or Latinidad, from the perspective of diasporic viewers in Miami, Brazilian viewers in Los...
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The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child
About My Parents and Their Child is a play commissioned by Ibsen International, directed by Matthias Jochmann and performed in Bei**g and Shanghai...
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Inter/cultural Films for Global Consumption
This chapter introduces the book’s principal aims, scope and conceptual proposal: that of delineating and analysing a cinematic turn in recent Latin...
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Mediating Action and Speech: Michelle Yeoh’s Star Discourse in Pan-Pacific Connections
Starting the first part of the book titled “Anglophone Media Space,” this chapter focuses on Michelle Yeoh, a Hong Kong action queen who impresses...
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The Female Voice in Two of Stanley Kwan’s Sinophone Films: Maggie Cheung, Sammi Cheng, and the (Un)translatability of Personae
This chapter examines the dialectically coded personae of Hong Kong actresses, Maggie Cheung and Sammi Cheng, in Stanley Kwan’s Center Stage (1992)...
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Multilingual Web: On Europe, Its Languages, and Performances of Difference
This chapter combines voices from diverse disciplines—linguistics, literature, translation, theatre, and cultural studies—to unpack the above...
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Film Britannia! National Narratives in a Globalised Environment
Defining what constitutes a British film has been a thorny issue throughout the history of British cinema. It involves examining a range of...
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International Trends
In this chapter, we examine key trends and issues affecting the historic and contemporary development of television production as an international...
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New Feminist Visibilities and Sisterhood: Re-interpreting Marriage, Desire, and Self-Fulfillment in Mainstream Hindi Cinema
Indian Cinema has as a “key arbiter” of popular culture in the subcontinent corroborated notions of identity, values, and gender. The Hindi film...
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Artistic Diplomacy: On Civic Engagement and Transnational Theatre
Contemporary European theatre builds on many traditions, yet two seem particularly at odds: wandering theatre troupes and publicly funded municipal...
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From Nordic Gloom to Nordic Cool: Producing Genre Film for the Global Markets
Expanding on historical criticisms of genre production in Nordic cinema, which have tended to align genre with commercialism and/or unfair...
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Genres in Ostasien (Japan, Südkorea, Hongkong/China)
Auch dank der populären Samuraifilme Kurosawa Akiras entwickelt sich bereits früh in der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit den Kinematografien...
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Unprocessed Pasts
Europe’s relation to its past has been a constant and a hot debate point (at least) since the end of the Second World War, and is still the subject...
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Improvement, Development, and Consumer Culture in Jane Austen and Popular Indian Cinema
Kao reads Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815) alongside recent British Indian and Indian adaptations Bride and Prejudice (2005)...
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Introduction: Key Terms in Comics Studies
Over the last 25 years, the field of comics studies has become firmly established in Anglophone academia. The number of comics-specific book series,...