The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema
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The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park | Gina Marchetti | See Kam Tan
Performing Arts / Film / General
Serves as a handbook to the study of Asian cinema by offering a variety of examples of how the category of “Asia” contributes to the analysis of specific films, directors, stars, genres, and cultural institutions such as film festivals
Provides models for analyzing Asian cinema transnationally as well as in relation to the nation-state, the region, and the world at large
Expands the field by including chapters on neglected cinemas of West, Central, and Southeast Asia
Scrutinizes the impact of the economic and political rise of China and India on global film
Includes contributions from established scholars in the field as well as fresh voices and perspectives from emerging researchers
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He has published in Asian Cinema, The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, The Journal of Korean Studies, and Post Script.
Gina Marchetti is Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. In 1995, her book, Romance and the "Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (University of California, 1993), won the award for best book in the area of cultural studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her recent book is Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (University Of Hawai'i Press, 2018).
Tan See Kam is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Department of English, University of Macau. He is Chair of the Asian Cinema Studies Society and Chief Editor of Asian Cinema.
| Publication Date: | 14 November 2018 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN-13: | 9781349958214 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Page Count: | 743 |