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The Cold War and Asian Cinemas book cover

1st Edition

The Cold War and Asian Cinemas

Edited By Poshek Fu, Man-Fung Yip Copyright 2020
328 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict.　 It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus. This volume makes a major contribution to constructing a cultural and popular cinema history of... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Transnational Connections

  1. Art in Propaganda: The Poetics and Politics of Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema

    2. Man-Fung Yip

  2. Incomplete Pictures: Mediated Immediacy in the South Korean Newsreel, The Frontline in Vietnam

    3. Namhee Han

  3. Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in Cold War China

    4. Jie Li

  4. Contested Chineseness and Third Sister Liu in Singapore and Hong Kong: Folk Songs, Landscape, and Cold War Politics in Asia

    5. Lanjun Xu

    Part II: Global Conflicts, Local Formations

  5. Educational Films in Postwar Japan: Traces of American Cultural Policies in the Cold War Period

    6. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

  6. The Cold War as Media Environment in 1960s Japanese Cinema

    7. Michael Raine

  7. Vehicles of Modernity: Gender, Mobility and Music in Evan Yang’s MP&GI films

    8. Jessica Tan

  8. Socks and Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Sentinels under the Neon Lights (1964)

    9. Calvin Hui

  9. Archive Revisionisms: Reevaluating South Korea’s State Film Censorship of the Cold War Era

    10. Hye Seung Chung

  10. Indian Cinema, Indian Democracy: An Unusual Cold War Saga, 1947-1989

    11. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta

    Part III: Struggle for Hearts and Minds

  11. Tropical Cold War Horror: Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI and the Traumatized Culture of Suharto’s New Order

    12. Michael G. Vann

  12. Entertainment and Propaganda: Hong Kong Cinema, 1946-1959

    13. Poshek Fu

  13. The End of an Era: The Cultural Revolution, Modernization, and the Demise of Hong Kong Leftist Cinema

    14. Man-Fung Yip

  14. Who Views Whom through Whose Lenses? The Gazes in USIS Film Propaganda in South Korea

Han Sang Kim

Biography

Poshek Fu is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on film history, Cold War cultures, and U.S.-China relations. He is the author of Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas (Stanford University Press, 1993) and Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 1993). He is also the editor of China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (University of Illinois Press, 2008), and co-editor of The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2002).



Man-Fung Yip is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation (Hong Kong University Press, 2017) and co-editor of American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows (Routledge, 2015). His work has also appeared in Cinema Journal, Chinese Literature Today, and numerous edited volumes.

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