Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide

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Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Gary Needham
University of Hawaii Press, Mar 31, 2006 - Social Science - 488 pages
The West’s current fascination with Asian cinema must be viewed in the context of a complex and often problematic relationship between Western scholars, students, viewers, and Asian films. This book examines a number of detailed case studies (such as the films of Ozu, Bruce Lee, Hong Kong and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, Taiwanese directors, and Fifth Generation Chinese cinema) and uses them to investigate the limitations of Anglo–U.S. theoretical models and critical paradigms. By engaging readers with familiar areas of critical discourse (such as postcolonial criticism, "national cinema," "genre," "authorship," and "stardom") the book aims to introduce within such contexts the "unfamiliar" case studies that will be explored in depth and detail.
 

Contents

Orientalism and Japanese Cinema
7
A filmmaker for all seasons
17
when Them is U S
41
Godzilla and Japanese scifihorrorfantasy
56
negotiating nationalism and modernity
100
CrossCultural Criticism and Chinese Cinema
147
toward a theory of ethnic
168
Western analysis and a nonWestern text
200
pleasures and popularity
280
Hum Aapke Hain Koun? cinephilia and Indian films
317
Questions of Authorship and Taiwanese Cinema
358
Ozu and the colonial encounter in Hou HsiaoHsien
369
The transnational cinema of Ang Lee
393
The Case of Bruce
404
narcissus and the little dragon
414
Enter the Dragon
426

The Case of Turkey
219
remakes in Turkish cinema
242
Genre Criticism and Popular Indian Cinema
271

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