14. Chua Beng Huat. Part I. East Asian pop culture / 1. Live or dead?: televised theatre and its audiences in Bali / Mark Hobart; 2. Law through a hybrid genre in Solomon's Choice: a case study of a reflection on law education through television in Korea / Ji Yun Park; 3. Eyes of the other: the role of Chinese women through the lens of documentary films / Cecilia J. Pang; 4. Almost propaganda but not quite: identity, modernity, and the construction of 'The Native' in Gift of life and Viva tonal / Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao -- Part II. Reconsidering Mainstream Genres: 5. Between mainstream and alternative: dialect drama in China / Xin Zhang; 6. Everything masala?: genres in Tamil cinema / Michael Christopher; 7. Defreezing notions of the Indian mythological / T. Vishnu Vardhan; 8. The Hindi horror film: notes on the realism of a marginal genre / Valentina Vitali; 9. From genre flick to art film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to kill and Pistol opera / Temenuga Trifonova -- Part III. Genre and Cross-Cultural Representation: 10. (In)Action film: genre and identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle / Angelina Karpovich; 11. The golden glow of the Alps: capitalism, globalization and Anime's dreams of Europe / Cobus van Staden; 12. The other and the neighbour: negotiating representations of 'Asia' in Bengali films / Madhuja Mukherjee; 13. Genre as cultural whimsy: taking to the road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever / Felicia Chan; 14. East Asian pop culture / Chua Beng Huat.
Summary:
"Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes"-- Provided by publisher.
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