Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City....Pages 11-27
Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Popular Hindi Cinema....Pages 29-43
Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the “New Bollywood”....Pages 45-62
Islamic “Terrorism” and Visions of Justice in Khalid Mohamed’s F IZA ....Pages 63-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Poverty of Justice: Postcolonial Condition and Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema....Pages 85-100
Shadowboxing with the Censors: A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story....Pages 101-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Oshima Nagisa’s Ai no korida Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema....Pages 123-139
Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in Recent South Korean Cinema:The Road Taken (Seontaek) and Its Genre....Pages 141-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Did Qiu Ju Get Good Legal Advice?....Pages 161-173
Blood in the Bathroom: Shanghai Triad as Gangster Noir ....Pages 175-194
Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen....Pages 195-211
Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen....Pages 213-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-238