East Asian Cinemas Regional Flows and Global Transformations
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
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Also by Vivian P. Y. Lee HONG KONG CINEMA SINCE 1997: The Post-Nostalgic Imagination
East Asian Cinemas Regional Flows and Global Transformations Edited by
Vivian P. Y. Lee
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Vivian P. Y. Lee 2011 Individual chapters © Contributors 2011 Preface © Yingjin Zhang 2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-27767-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-32559-7 ISBN 978-0-230-30718-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230307186 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data East Asian cinemas : regional flows and global transformations / edited by Vivian P.Y. Lee. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Motion pictures—East Asia. 2. Motion picture industry—East Asia. I. Lee, Vivian P. Y., 1966– II. Title. PN1993.5.E19E275 2011 791.43095—dc22 2011004143 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11
Contents List of Figures and Tables
vii
Preface
viii
Acknowledgments
xi
Notes on Contributors
xii
Introduction: Mapping East Asia’s Cinemascape Vivian P. Y. Lee
1
Part I Filmmaking, Film Industry, and the Film Market 1 Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas Song Hwee Lim
15
2 Hollywood’s Global Strategy and the Future of Chinese Cinema Hong Yin and Zhiwei Xiao (Translated by Vivian P. Y. Lee)
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Part II Genre and Transnational Aesthetics 3 Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the “Desert of the Real”: Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the T
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