Asian Pop Cinema

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0811821196

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Asian Pop Cinema by Lee Server Pdf

Asian Pop Cinema is the first full-color guide to the wide-ranging films of Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and India, served up with dozens of spectacular photographs, film stills, and movie posters. Outlandish animated science fiction, musical shoot 'em ups, sword epics, ghost stories, and erotic tales (sometimes all in one!)-the floodgates of Asian cinema are open and Western audiences are hungry for the dazzling thrills. Presenting the major films, the people behind them, the key elements of each genre, and interviews with John Woo and others, Lee Server brings a unique breadth of knowledge and inimitable wit to every page. From subversive camp to high-adrenaline crime thrillers, Asian Pop Cinema is a great read and exciting resource for both seasoned and uninitiated viewers.

Author : Rashmi Doraiswamy,Latika Padgaonkar
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9788183282086

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Asian Film Journeys by Rashmi Doraiswamy,Latika Padgaonkar Pdf

For lovers of Asian cinema and for those simply curious to know its trends and moods, experiments and innovations since it strode the world stage with assurance in the mid- 80s, Asian Film Journeys is a feast. It presents a selection of articles that appeared in the pages of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly between 1988 and 2004, articles that closely tracked the bold new film narrative of both the well-known and the lesser-known cinemas as it unfolded. The Quarterly remained, for fifteen years, the one and only serious yet lively platform for writing on the cinemas of Asian countries. Given that the writers were mostly Asian-apart from some keen and long-standing followers of Asian cinema from the West-the magazine offered, for the first time, a truly authentic point of view, a look at films from within their cultures. The book gives a bird’s eye view of the style and substance, art and craft of these cinemas and captures some of the Asian air it let in!

Author : Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000351330

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture by Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin Pdf

This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives and grounded empirical research, an international team of authors consider the history of transnational flows within pop culture and then systematically address pop culture,digital technologies, and the media industry. Chapters cover the Hallyu—or Korean Wave—phenomenon, as well as Japanese and Chinese cultural industries. Throughout the book, the authors address the convergence of the once-separated practical, industrial, and business aspects of popular culture under the influence of digital culture. They further coherently synthesize a vast collection of research to examine the specific realities and practices of consumers that exist beyond regional boundaries, shared cultural identities, and historical constructs. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students of Asian media, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, transcultural communication, or sociology.

Author : Beng Huat Chua
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888139033

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Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua Pdf

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences’ formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. In an era where exercise of military power is increasingly restrained, pop culture has become an important component of soft power diplomacy and transcultural collaborations in a region that is still haunted by colonization and violence. The author notes that the aspirations behind national governments' efforts to use popular culture is limited by the fragmented nature of audiences who respond differently to the same products; by the danger of backlash from other members of the importing country's population that do not consume the popular culture products in question; and by the efforts of the primary consuming country, the People's Republic of China to shape products through co-production strategies and other indirect modes of intervention.

Author : Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521414652

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Melodrama and Asian Cinema by Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.

Author : Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230339507

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East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage by Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia Pdf

How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asians in motion pictures
ISBN : IND:30000085300261

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Asian Cinema by Anonim Pdf

Author : F. Chan,A. Karpovich,X. Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230301900

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Genre in Asian Film and Television by F. Chan,A. Karpovich,X. Zhang Pdf

Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.

Author : V. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230307186

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East Asian Cinemas by V. Lee Pdf

This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.

Author : Tilman Baumgärtel
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789888083602

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Southeast Asian Independent Cinema by Tilman Baumgärtel Pdf

The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia, following the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers there, is among the most significant recent developments in global cinema. The advent of affordable and easy access to digital technology has empowered startling new voices from a part of the world rarely heard or seen in international film circles. The appearance of fresh, sharply alternative, and often very personal voices has had a tremendous impact on local film production. This book documents these developments as a genuine outcome of the democratization and liberalization of film production. Contributions from respected scholars, interviews with filmmakers, personal accounts and primary sources by important directors and screenwriters collectively provide readers with a lively account of dynamic film developments in Southeast Asia. Interviewees include Lav Diaz, Amir Muhammad, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Eric Khoo, Nia Dinata and others. Tilman Baumgärtel taught film and media studies in Germany, Austria and the Philippines before joining Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2009. He has curated international film series and art exhibitions, and has also published books on independent cinema, Internet art, computer games and the German director Harun Farocki. His blog can be found at http://southeastasiancinema.wordpress.com

Author : Ugur Akinci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798677294327

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11 Asian Movies by Ugur Akinci Pdf

Here is an eclectic and special collection of cinematic masterworks by exciting directors from China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. WARNING: Some of the reviews contain sexually explicit or suggestive language due to the subject matter and plot line of the movie. Each movie is presented with detailed plot line, selected dialogue, and followed by main plot points. The collection starts with "Sweet Sex and Love" (2003), a South Korean film by Man-dae Bong (WARNIN/G: explicit sexual scenes). Two lovers start their relationship on pure animalistic magnetism. But is that enough? "Woman is the Future of Man" (2004) by Sang-soo Hong is the second South Korean film in this special collection that explores the following core dilemma: how to love a woman without betraying one's closest friend with whom the same woman also carries a relationship. "The Wayward Cloud" (2005) by the Taiwanese director Ming-liang Tsai is arguably one of the most experimental and audacious movies ever made. In terms of sheer cinematographic imagination and outrageous creativity, this is a work that rates 110 out of 100. "Stolen Life" (2005) from China by director Shaohong Li is a merciless drama about indignities of belonging to the lower class in China through the eyes of a hapless and not-so-smart beauty from the countryside who gets used in Beijing without mercy by an opportunistic heartbreaker. A gritty urban tale. "Isabella" (2006) by Chinese director Ho-Cheung Pang is a story of redemption and a tour de force of sentimentality presented with stylistic authority where the soul-wrenching musical score (Portuguese Fado) is the third main character. "M" (2006) from Japan by director Ryuichi Hiroki is another modern Asian masterpiece. A young house wife looks for the love and attention she thinks her husband owes her in all the wrong places. "Maybe" (2009) by South Korean director Jihong Ju is the story of an adopted Korean-American woman arriving in Seoul to look for her real parents. The taxi driver she meets at the airport will change her life in more ways than one. The last movie "Parasite" (2019) is a South Korean masterpiece that won the Academy Award for Best Film in 2020.

Author : Jim Cheng,James Wicks,Sachie Noguchi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231540339

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An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng,James Wicks,Sachie Noguchi Pdf

Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and unpublished monographs, theses, manuscripts, and conference proceedings of Taiwanese film scholars from the 1950s to 2013. Paired with An Annotated Bibliography for Chinese Film Studies (2004), which accounts for texts dating back to the 1920s, this series brings together like no other reference the disparate voices of Chinese film scholarship, charting its unique intellectual arc. Organized intuitively, the volume begins with reference materials (bibliographies, cinematographies, directories, indexes, dictionaries, and handbooks) and then moves through film history (the colonial period, Taiwan dialect film, new Taiwan cinema, the 2/28 incident); film genres (animated, anticommunist, documentary, ethnographic, martial arts, teen); film reviews; film theory and technique; interdisciplinary studies (Taiwan and mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, film and aboriginal peoples, film and literature, film and nationality); biographical materials; film stories, screenplays, and scripts; film technology; and miscellaneous aspects of Taiwanese film scholarship (artifacts, acts of censorship, copyright law, distribution channels, film festivals, and industry practice). Works written in multiple languages include transliteration/romanized and original script entries, which follow universal AACR-2 and American cataloguing standards, and professional notations by the editors to aid in the use of sources.

Author : Chi-Yun Shin,Julian Stringer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0748618511

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New Korean Cinema by Chi-Yun Shin,Julian Stringer Pdf

A wide-ranging analysis of modern South Korean cinema.

Author : John A. Lent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X006082647

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The Asian Film Industry by John A. Lent Pdf

Author : Poshek Fu,David Desser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521776023

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The Cinema of Hong Kong by Poshek Fu,David Desser Pdf

This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.