The Cold War and Asian Cinemas (Hardcover)

Introduction Part I: Transnational Connections Art in Propaganda: The Poetics and Politics of Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema Man-Fung Yip Incomplete Pictures: Mediated Immediacy in the South Korean Newsreel, The Frontline in Vietnam Namhee Han Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in Cold War China Jie Li Contested Chineseness and Third Sister Liu in Singapore and Hong Kong: Folk Songs, Landscape, and Cold War Politics in Asia Lanjun Xu Part II: Global Conflicts, Local Formations Educational Films in Postwar Japan: Traces of American Cultural Policies in the Cold War Period Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano The Cold War as Media Environment in 1960s Japanese Cinema Michael Raine Vehicles of Modernity: Gender, Mobility and Music in Evan Yang’s MP&GI films Jessica Tan Socks and Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Sentinels under the Neon Lights (1964) Calvin Hui Archive Revisionisms: Reevaluating South Korea’s State Film Censorship of the Cold War Era Hye Seung Chung Indian Cinema, Indian Democracy: An Unusual Cold War Saga, 1947-1989 Rini Bhattacharya Mehta Part III: Struggle for Hearts and Minds Tropical Cold War Horror: Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI and the Traumatized Culture of Suharto’s New Order Michael G. Vann Entertainment and Propaganda: Hong Kong Cinema, 1946-1959 Poshek Fu The End of an Era: The Cultural Revolution, Modernization, and the Demise of Hong Kong Leftist Cinema Man-Fung Yip Who Views Whom through Whose Lenses? The Gazes in USIS Film Propaganda in South Korea Han Sang Kim