362 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explore queer themes in films from Hong Kong gangster flicks to Bollywood melodramas! Although Asian films have reached a new height in popularity worldwide, Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade is the first full-length book in English solely devoted to examining the aesthetics and politics of homosexuality in Asian films. This unique book presents multiple points of view on the portrayal... Read more
Contents
- Preface
- “Beautiful Publicity”: An Introduction to Queer Asian Film
- Japan's Progressive Sex: Male Homosexuality, National Competition, and the Cinema
- The (Temporary?) Queering of Japanese TV
- Two Japanese Variants of the Absolute Transvestite Film
- Obscenity and Homosexual Depiction in Japan
- The Rise of Homosexuality and the Dawn of Communism in Hong Kong Film, 1993-1998
- Happy Alone? Sad Young Men in East Asian Gay Cinema
- The Cross-Gender Performances of Yam Kim-Fei, or The Queer Factor in Postwar Hong Kong Cantonese Opera/Opera Films
- Farewell My Fantasy
- The Outcasts: A Family Romance
- Homosexual Men (and Lesbian Men) in a Heterosexual Genre: Three Gangster Films from Hong Kong
- Remembered Branches: Towards a Future of Korean Homosexual Film
- Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema
- Memories Pierce the Heart: Homoeroticism, Bollywood-Style
- The Changing Image of the Hero in Hindi Films
- Long Life of a Short Film
- Transvestites and Transgressions: Panggagaya in Philippine Gay Cinema
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Andrew Grossman
