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The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas

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Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas and charts new constellations in the field with significance far beyond Asian cinema studies. Asian cinema studies – at the intersection of film/media studies and area studies - has rapidly transformed under the impact of globalization, compounded by the resurgence of a variety of nationalist discourses as well as counter-discourses, new socio-political movements, and the possibilities afforded by digital media. Differentiated experiences of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have further heightened interest in the digital every day and the renewed geopolitical divide between “East” and “West,” “North” and “South.” Thematized into six sections, the 46 chapters in this anthology address established paradigms of scholarship and viewership in Asian cinemas like extreme genres, cinephilia, festivals, and national cinema, while also highlighting political and archival concerns that firmly situate Asian cinemas within local and translocal milieus. Underrepresented cinemas of North Korea, Bangladesh, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Cambodia, appear here amidst a broader cross-regional, comparative approach. An ideal resource for film, media, cultural and Asian studies researchers, students, and scholars, as well as informed readers with an interest in Asian cinemas.

Author Biography:

Zhen Zhang is Professor and directs the Asian Film & Media Initiative in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. Her publications include An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896-1937; The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film, and Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema. She also curates film programs and serves as jury members for various platforms. Sangjoon Lee is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Lee is the author of Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (2020) and the editor/co-editor of Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (2015), Rediscovering Korean Cinema (2019), The South Korean Film Industry (2024), and Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas (2024). His works have been translated into Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian. Debashree Mukherjee is Associate Professor of film and media in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University, USA. She is author of Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (2020) and editor of Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema (2023). Her current book project, Media at the Dawn of Planetary Extraction, develops a media history of South Asian indentured migration and plantation capitalism. Debashree edits the peer-reviewed journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies and has published in journals such as Film History, Feminist Media Histories, and Representations. Intan Paramaditha is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of the novel The Wandering and short story collection Apple and Knife and her articles have appeared in, among others, Feminist Review, Visual Anthropology, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Film Quarterly. Her research and creative interests include travel, transnationalism, and decolonial feminism.
Release date NZ
June 20th, 2024
Contributors
  • Edited by Debashree Mukherjee
  • Edited by Intan Paramaditha
  • Edited by Sangjoon Lee
  • Edited by Zhen Zhang
Pages
564
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 46 Halftones, black and white; 46 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
9781032199405
Product ID
38435126

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