1st Edition

South and East Asian Cinemas Across Borders Critical Trends in Transnational Cinema

Edited By Clelia Clini, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Yanling Yang Copyright 2022
102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in terms of co-productions. At a time of resurgent nationalisms and increasing fortifications of (actual and symbolic) borders, the chapters in this book explore cinematic work that challenge these... Read more

1. Critical trends in transnational cinema: Inter-Asian productions and exchanges

Yanling Yang, Clelia Clini and Rohit K. Dasgupta

2. The emergence of China-India film co-production: policy and practice

Yanling Yang

3. Subalterns and the city: Dubai as cross-cultural caravanserai in City of Life and Pinky Memsaab

Ashvin Devasundaram

4. Repetition and difference in East Asian gothic cinema: the Bunshinsaba film series

Colette Balmain

5. Between cultural performance and cultural activism: contemporary documentary film festivals in India

Giulia Battaglia

6. Is Everybody Kung Fu Fighting? Indian Popular Cinema and Martial Arts Films

Clelia Clini

Biography

Clelia Clini is Research Associate at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries in Loughborough University, UK.

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the School of Culture and Creative Arts in the University of Glasgow, UK.

Yanling Yang is Lecturer in Languages and Communications at the College of Humanities in the University of Exeter, UK.