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Multiple Modernities: Cinemas & Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia

Multiple Modernities: Cinemas & Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia


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Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examines popular culture - most notable cinema and television - to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and as a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collected effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. Contributors include: Jeroen de Kloet, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Yomota Inuhiko, Frances Gateward, Hector Rodriguez, Dai Jaihua, David Desser, August Palmer, Lu Szu-Ping and the editor.

Table of Contents:
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Jenny Kwok Wah LauPart I: States of Modernities1. Globalization and Youthful Subculture: The Chinese Sixth-Generation Films at the Dawn of the New Century - Jenny Kwok Wah Lau2. Marx or Market: Chinese Rock and the Sound of Fury - Jeroen de Kloet3. Reexamining the East and the West: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, "Orientalism," and Popular Culture - Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto4. Stranger Than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema - Yomota Inuhiko, translated by Aaron Gerow5. Discourse on Modernization in 1990s Korean Cinema - Han Ju Kwak6. Youth in Crisis: National and Cultural Identity in New South Korean Cinema - Frances Gateward7. The Fragmented Commonplace: Alternative Arts and Cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong - Hector RodriguezPart II: Postmodernism and Its Discontents8. Immediacy, Parody, and Image in the Mirror: Is There a Postmodern Scene in Beijing? - Dai Jinhua, translated by Jing M. Wang9. Terms of Transition: The Action Film, Postmodernism, and Issues of an East-West Perspective - Chuck Kleinhans10. Consuming Asia: Chinese and Japanese Popular Culture and the American Imaginary - David DesserPart III: Women in Modern Asia11. Of Executioners and Courtesans: The Performance of Gender in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s - Augusta Lee Palmer and Jenny Kwok Wah Lau12. The Woman with Broken Palm Lines: Subject, Agency, Fortune-Telling, and Women in Taiwanese Television Drama - Lin Szu-PingAbout the ContributorsIndex

About the Author :
JENNY KWOK WAH LAU is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema at San Francisco State University.

Review :
"Multiple Modernities is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship in the area of contemporary Asian cultural studies." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture "Lau has managed to bring together an impressive collection of essays by both established and emerging scholars. She does an excellent job of combining new research on national cinemas that have received a decent amount of scholarly attention in the West with lesser-known Asian media cultures. The cogency of the volume is astounding. Multiple Modernities provides valuable new insights into the relationship between Asian cinema, popular culture, and issues of modernity. It adds significantly to our understanding of political cinematic culture." --Gina Marchetti, Ithaca College, and author of Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction "Two of the book's many merits stand out especially prominently. First it is a useful introduction to various popular media...[second,] many of the researchers are engaged in interdisciplinary analyses...and it is the scholar's responsibility to identify and discuss these various manifestations." --Senses of Cinema


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  • ISBN-13: 9781566399869
  • Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: Cinemas & Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia
  • ISBN-10: 1566399866
  • Publisher Date: 23 Dec 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 178 mm


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