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Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

By Lúcia Nagib , Felicia Chan , Julian Ross

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris;
Year
2017
ISBN
1780767226, 9781780767222
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16599933 bytes)
Pages
224\224
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2020-12-25 10:32:21

Description

Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cinemas or definitive cultural boundaries. Case studies illuminate the ambiguously gendered star persona of Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress Brigitte Lin, the fictional realism of director Jia Zhangke, the arcane process of selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and the intimate connection between cinema and identity in Hirokazu Koreeda s Afterlife (1998). Considering films, their audiences and tastemaking institutions, the book argues that cosmopolitan cinema does not smooth over difference, but rather puts it on display."

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