East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Mapping East Asia’s Cinemascape....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas....Pages 15-32
Hollywood’s Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema....Pages 33-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the “Desert of the Real”: Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style....Pages 61-86
007 in Late Colonial Hong Kong: Technology, Masculinity, and Sly Humor in Stephen Chow’s From Beijing with Love....Pages 87-102
“Asia” as Regional Signifier and Transnational Genre-Branding: The Asian Horror Omnibus Movies Three and Three … Extremes....Pages 103-117
J-Horror and Kimchi Western: Mobile Genres in East Asian Cinemas....Pages 118-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Rethinking a New National Identity in Heisei Japan: Neo-Conservatism and Japanese Cinema....Pages 145-169
Cinematic Imagination of Border-Crossing in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: Comrades, Almost a Love Story and Durian, Durian....Pages 170-188
In the Name of “Asia”: Practices and Consequences of Recent International Film Co-Productions in East Asia....Pages 189-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-Production....Pages 213-234
“Working Through China” in the Pan-Asian Film Network: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Singapore....Pages 235-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-253