Film Stardom in South East Asia
Author: Jonathan Driskell
Publisher:
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474442206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyses the cinematic and social significance of the star phenomenon in Southeast Asia.
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Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Author: David C. L. Lim
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136592466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital. The wide range of subjects covered include documentaries as political interventions in Singapore; political film-makers’ collectives in the Philippines, and films about prostitution in Cambodia and patriotism in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Indonesia. The book analyses films from Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, across a broad range of productions – such as mainstream and independent features across genres (for example comedy, patriotic, political, historical genres) alongside documentary, classic and diasporic films.
East Asian Film Stars
Author: L. Wing-Fai
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1137029196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas.
Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India
Author: Monika Mehta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-12-13
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1000293319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume points to the limits of models such as regional, national, and transnational, and develops ‘network’ as a conceptual category to study cinemas of India. Through grounded and interdisciplinary research, it shows how film industries located in disparate territories have not functioned as isolated units and draws attention to the industrial traffic – of filmic material, actors, performers, authors, technicians, genres, styles, sounds, expertise, languages, and capital, across trans-regional contexts -- since the inception of cinema. It excavates histories of film production, distribution and exhibition, and their connections beyond regional and national boundaries, and between places, industrial practices, and multiple media. The chapters in this volume address a range of themes such as transgressive female figures; networks of authors and technicians; trans-regional production links and changing technologies, and new media geographies. By tracking manifold changes in the contexts of transforming media, and inter-connections between diverse industrial nodal points, this book expands the critical vocabulary in media and production studies and foregrounds new methods for examining cinema. A generative account of industrial networks, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of film studies, cinema studies, media studies, production studies, media sociology, gender studies, South Asian studies, and cultural studies.
Transnational Stardom
Author: R. Meeuf
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 113726828X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world.
Film in South East Asia
Author: David Hanan
Publisher: National Gallery of Australia
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Film in South East Asia: views from the region: essays on film in ten South East Asian countries.
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
Author: Lau Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1474430368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, posting and sharing texts significantly easier, and by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.
East Asian Film Stars
Author: L. Wing-Fai
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-21
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1137029196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas.
Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong
Author: Leung Wing-Fai
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-27
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 113462512X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines the cultural and sociological significance of stardom in the region, and the conditions which gave rise to such famous stars as Jackie Chan. This book elaborates the distinction between multimedia stardom and celebrity, asserting that in Hong Kong stardom has been central in the production and consumption of local media, while demonstrating the importance of multimedia stardom as part of the ‘cultural Chinese’ mediascape and transnational popular culture from both historical and contemporary contexts.
East Asian Cinema
Author: David Carter
Publisher: Oldacastle Books
Published: 2007-05-15
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1842433806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Film directors from East Asia frequently win top prizes at international film festivals, but few books have been published about them. The films of these countries reflect periods of great political turmoil, rapid modernization in the 20th century, and the conflicts between modern lifestyles and traditional values. Covering films and filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea, this is an ideal reference work on all the major directors, including Akira Kurosawa, Won Kar Wai, Takeshi Kitano, Zhang Yimou, Shohei Imamura, Tsui Hark, and Takeshi Miike. Providing individual analyses on more than 100 key East Asian films and with checklists for the films of each country, this guide to an incredibly rich and diverse body of work is useful for both ardent fans and serious students.
