Cosmopolitan Cinema

Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

von Felicia Chan

222 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Manchester.

Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cinemas or definitive cultural boundaries. Case studies illuminate the ambiguously gendered star persona of Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress Brigitte Lin, the fictional realism of director Jia Zhangke, the arcane process of selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and the intimate connection between cinema and identity in Hirokazu Koreeda's Afterlife (1998). Considering films, their audiences and tastemaking institutions, the book argues that cosmopolitan cinema does not smooth over difference, but rather puts it on display.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Manchester, UK

• Reihe: Bloomsbury 3PL
• ISBN: 9781780767222
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2017
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC