Genre in Asian film and television: new approaches

'Genre in Asian Film and Television' takes a dynamic approach to the study ofAsian 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. FELICIA CHAN RCUK Fellow in Film, Media and Transnational Cultures at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester, UK. She has strong interests in transnational Chinese and Japanese cinematic cultures. She is also co-founder of the Chinese Film Forum UK, a Manchester-based collaborative network set up for the research and promotion of transnational Chinese films. . ANGELINA KARPOVICH Lecturer in Multimedia and Broadcasting Technology at Brunel University, UK. She is an anthropologist and filmmaker, and has published work on media audiences, media technologies, and the relationship between the moving image and modernity. . XIN ZHANG worked as a television news producer and broadcaster in China before completing a PhD on Chinese television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. She currently works as an independent researcher in Switzerland. INDICE: Introduction; 'F.Chan' &' A.Karpovich - 'PART I: NON-FICTION GENRES - Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali; 'M.Hobart - 'Law Through a Hybrid Genre in 'Solomon's Choice': A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education Through Television in Korea; 'J.Y.Park - 'Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women Through the Lens of Documentary Films; 'C.J.Pang - 'Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity, and the Construction of 'The Native' in Two Recent Taiwanese Documentaries; 'H.S.Liao' - PART II: RECONSIDERING MAINSTREAM GENRES - Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Dramain China; 'X.Zhang' - Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema; 'M.Christopher' - De-Freezing Notions of the Indian Mythological; 'V.T.Vardhan - 'The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre; 'V.Vitali' - From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's 'Branded to Kill' and 'Pistol Opera'; 'T.Trifonova' - PART III: GENRE AND CROSS-CULTURAL REPRESENTATION - (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov's 'The Needle'; 'A.Karpovich - 'TheGolden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and 'Anime's' Dreams of Europe; 'C.van Staden' - The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of 'Asia' in Bengali Films; 'M.Mukherjee - 'Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Takingto the Road in Takashi Miike's 'The Bird People in China' and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's 'Cold Fever'; 'F.Chan' - East Asian Pop Culture; 'Chua Beng Huat' - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27217-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido