Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and—more specifically—probes these films’ treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies made in post-social and anti-Communist societies such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea, the book picks up on the political and economic concerns implicitly underlying Sinophobic and anti-Communist Asian images in Hollywood films while also considering how these societies and states depict the issues of centralization, militarization and technological innovation so often figured as distinctive of the difference between eastern despotism and western liberalism.
... and Margot Backus for their support and readings in the project's earliest stages. Stephanie DeBoer, Michael Shapiro, and other anonymous press readers provided invaluable expertise in bringing the project to completion.
Jia Zhangke is not the only contemporary Chinese filmmaker to pay homage to foreign films that he had watched in his youth. As noted earlier, memories of many films discussed in this chapter are staged as meta-cinema in works such as ...
This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context.
... Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounter and Intercultural Dialogue, eds. Chi-yun Shin and Mark Gallagher (London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2015), p. 223. 4. Karen Fang, “Introduction: Asian Cinema and the Surveillance ...
46 Within a month, Levin sent out invitations to Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, and South Korea ... Harry H. Pierson, the TAF-Bangkok representative, arranged a special screening of the Thai film The Diamond Finger, ...
Cinemas from East Asia are recognised to be among the most exciting and influential in the world . ... cinemas , and currently Research Assistant at the Creative Industries Research and Consultancy Unit , University of Hertfordshire .
This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the ...
I cite my mother's response to the film : ' It is remarkable that a foreign devil should be able to make a film like this about ... and thus miss its appeal to many Chinese spectators in Hong Kong , Taiwan , and the People's Republic .
From Enemy of the State and The Bourne Series to Saw, Caché and Zero Dark Thirty, Surveillance Cinema explores in detail the narrative tropes and stylistic practices that characterize contemporary films and television series about ...
The first book to give rigorous study to the concept of East Asian exploitation cinema as a product of global circulation and popular perception, both inside and outside of East Asia.