East Asian Cinemas : Exploring Transnational Connections on Film (Paperback)

CONTENTS 1. Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai, 'Introduction' Part One: Global Encounters of the First Kind 2. David Desser, 'Remaking Seven Samurai in World Cinema' 3. Gary Needham, 'Fashioning Social Change in the Hong Kong Musical 1957-1964' 4. Charles Leary, 'The Shadow of an Airplane over East Asia: Worldly Hong Kong Cinema' Part Two: All Changing on the Eastern Front 5. Leung Wing-Fai, 'Infernal Affairs and Kung Fu Hustle: Panacea, Placebo and Hong Kong Cinema' 6. Chris Howard, 'Contemporary South Korean Cinema: National Conjunction and Diversity' 7. Rayna Denison, 'The Language of the Blockbuster: Promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture' Part Three: Made in Translation - Transnational Identities 8. Adam Knee, 'Suriyothai Becomes Legend: National Identity as Global Currency' 9. Brian Ruh, 'Last Life in the Universe: Nationality, Technology, Authorship' 10. David Scott Diffrient, 'From Three Godfathers to Tokyo Godfathers: Signifying Social Change in a Transnational Context' 11. Theresa Geller, 'Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Kaizo Hayashi's The Most Terrible Time of My Life' Part Four: How the West Was Won? Asianisation and Beyond 12. Gang Gary Xu, 'Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood' 13. Nikki J.Y. Lee, 'Salute to Mr Vengeance: Oldboy and the Making of a Transnational Auteur' 14. Leon Hunt, 'Asiaphilia, Asianisation and the Gatekeeper Auteur: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson' 15. Sheng-mei Ma, 'Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures'