Full Description
A comprehensive book on the complex relationship between media and modernity in east Asia
Contents
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Jenny Kwok Wah LauPart I: States of Modernities1. Globalization and Youthful Subculture: The Chinese Sixth-Generation Films at the Dawn of the New Century - Jenny Kwok Wah Lau2. Marx or Market: Chinese Rock and the Sound of Fury - Jeroen de Kloet3. Reexamining the East and the West: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, "Orientalism," and Popular Culture - Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto4. Stranger Than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema - Yomota Inuhiko, translated by Aaron Gerow5. Discourse on Modernization in 1990s Korean Cinema - Han Ju Kwak6. Youth in Crisis: National and Cultural Identity in New South Korean Cinema - Frances Gateward7. The Fragmented Commonplace: Alternative Arts and Cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong - Hector RodriguezPart II: Postmodernism and Its Discontents8. Immediacy, Parody, and Image in the Mirror: Is There a Postmodern Scene in Beijing? - Dai Jinhua, translated by Jing M. Wang9. Terms of Transition: The Action Film, Postmodernism, and Issues of an East-West Perspective - Chuck Kleinhans10. Consuming Asia: Chinese and Japanese Popular Culture and the American Imaginary - David DesserPart III: Women in Modern Asia11. Of Executioners and Courtesans: The Performance of Gender in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s - Augusta Lee Palmer and Jenny Kwok Wah Lau12. The Woman with Broken Palm Lines: Subject, Agency, Fortune-Telling, and Women in Taiwanese Television Drama - Lin Szu-PingAbout the ContributorsIndex
