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East Asian-German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present book cover

1st Edition

East Asian-German Cinema The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present

Edited By Joanne Miyang Cho Copyright 2022
324 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is the first edited volume dedicated to the study of East Asian-German cinema. Its coverage ranges from 1919 to the present, a period which has witnessed an unprecedented degree of global entanglement between Germany and East Asia. In analyzing this hybrid cinema, this volume employs a transnational approach, which highlights the nations’ cinematic encounters and entanglements. It reveals... Read more

1. German Cinema, German Hybrid Cinema, and Organization

Joanne Miyang Cho

Part 1: Film Adaptations and Representations of the German-East Asian Relationship, 1919–1945

2. Implicating Buddhism in Madame Butterfly’s Tragedy: Japonisme and Japan-Bashing in Fritz Lang’s Harakiri (1919)

Qinna Shen

3. The Familiar Unfamiliar: Japan in Interwar German Feature Films

Ricky W. Law

4. A Loving Family (Ai no ikka, 1941). The Transcultural Film Adaptation of a Classic German Children’s Book in Wartime Japan

Harald Salomon

5. Documentaries about Jewish Exiles in Shanghai: Witness Testimony and Cross-Cultural Public Memory Formation

Birgit Maier-Katkin

Part 2: Representations of Gender in the 1950s and 1960s: Asian Femininity and Idealized Masculinity

6. A Façade of Solidarity: East Germany’s Attempted Dialogue with China in The Compass Rose (Die Windrose, 1957)

Qingyang Zhou

7. The World(s) of Anna Suh: Race, Migration, and Ornamentalism in Bis zum Ende aller Tage (Until the End of Days, 1961)

Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick

8. Idealized Masculinity, National Identity, and the Other: The James Bond Archetype in German and Japanese Spy Fiction

Aaron D. Horton

Part 3: Cultural Globalization and the Persistence of the Popular Since the 1970s

9. China’s Encounter with Mozart in Two Films: From Musical Modernity to Cultural Globalization

Jinsong Chen

10. The Persistence of the Popular: The Cinemas of National Division in Germany and Korea

Steve Choe

Part 4: East Asian-German Entanglements Since the 1980s

11. Temporal Structures & Rhythms in Wenders’ Tokyo-Ga (1985) and Ottinger’s The Korean Wedding Chest (2009)

Shambhavi Prakash

12. My Own Private Tokyo: The Japan Features of Doris Dörrie

Bruce Williams

13. Claiming Cultural Citizenship: East Asian-German Presence on YouTube and Public Television’s www.funk.net

Sabine von Dirke

Biography

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University.

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