Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali....Pages 13-32
Law through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon’s Choice: A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education through Television in Korea....Pages 33-44
Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women through the Lens of Documentary Films....Pages 45-60
Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity and the Construction of ‘The Native’ in Gift of Life and Viva Tonal ....Pages 61-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China....Pages 79-100
Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema....Pages 101-114
Defreezing Notions of the Indian Mythological....Pages 115-129
The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre....Pages 130-148
From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera ....Pages 149-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
(In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov’s The Needle ....Pages 165-177
The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime’s Dreams of Europe....Pages 178-193
The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of ‘Asia’ in Bengali Films....Pages 194-209
Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in The Bird People in China and Cold Fever ....Pages 210-221
East Asian Pop Culture....Pages 222-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-255