Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema

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edited by Wimal Dissanayake

Klappentext
WIMAL DISSANAYAKE, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, Hawaii, is the author of several books on cinema, the latest being Melodrama and Asian Cinema.

Zusammenfassung
As political barriers crumble, Asian cinema is increasingly attracting the attention of film critics, film scholars, and specialists in cultural studies. This book deals with film traditions in nine Asian countries Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Australia.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nationhood, History, and Cinema: Reflections on the Asian Scene
Wimal Dissanayake
1. Warring Bodies: Most Nationalistic Selves
Patricia Lee Masters
2. The Peace Divided in Japanese Cinema: Metaphors of a Demilitarized Nation
Marie Thorsten Morimoto
3. Ideology of the Body in Red Sorghum: National Allegory, National Roots, and Third Cinema
Yingjin Zhang
4. A Nation T(w/o)o: Chinese Cinema(s) and Nationhood(s)
Chris Berry
5. Korean Cinema and the New Realism: Text and Context
Isolde Standish
6. Melodramas of Korean National Identity: From Mandala to Black Republic
Rob Wilson
7. Vietnamese Cinema: First Views
John Charlot
8. Cinema and Nation: Dilemmas of Representation in Thailand
Annette Hamilton
9. National Cinema, National Culture: The Idonesian Case
Karl G. Heider
10. The Representation of Colonialism in Satyajit Ray's
The Chess Players
11. Cinema, Nationhood, and Cultural Discourse in Sri Lanka
Wimal Dissanayake
12. The End of the National Project? Australian Cinema in the 1990s
Gramem Turner
Contributors
Index

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