Asian cinemas: a reader and guide

Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction, Dimitris Eleftheriotis Part I: Approaching Asian Cinemas Section 1 Orientalism and Japanese Cinema Japanese cinema and orientalism, Gary Needham 1. A filmmaker for all seasons, David Desser 2. The difficulty of being radical: the discipline of film studies and the postcolonial world order, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto 3. Godzilla and the Japanese nightmare: when Them! is U.S., Chon Noriega 4. Monster island: Godzilla and Japanese sci-fi/horror/fantasy, Philip Brophy Section 2 Colonial Encounters, Post-colonial Criticism and Hong Kong Cinema The post-colonial Hong Kong cinema, Gary Needham 5. The new Hong Kong cinema and the deja disparu, Ackbar Abbas 6. Kung Fu: negotiating nationalism and modernity, Siu Leung Li 7. Under 'Western eyes': the personal odyssey of Huang Fei-Hong in Once upon a Time in China, Tony Williams Section 3 Cross-Cultural Criticism and Chinese Cinema Cross-cultural criticism and Chinese cinema, Dimitris Eleftheriotis 8. Problematizing cross-cultural analysis: the case of women in the recent Chinese cinema, E. Ann Kaplan 9. Seeing modern China: toward a theory of ethnic spectatorship, Rey Chow 10. Yellow Earth: Western analysis and a non-Western text, Esther Yau Part II: Frameworks of Study Section 4 National Cinema: The Case of Turkey Turkish national cinema, Dimitris Eleftheriotis 11. Narratives of resistance: national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 229, Nezih Erdog an 12. Translating modernity: remakes in Turkish cinema, Ahmet Gurata 13. Mute bodies, disembodied voices: notes on sound in Turkish popular cinema, Nezih Erdog an Section 5 Genre Criticism and Popular Indian Cinema Genre criticism and popular Indian cinema, Dimitris Eleftheriotis 14. Indian cinema: pleasures and popularity, Rosie Thomas 15. Addressing the spectator of a 'third world' national cinema: the Bombay 'social' film of the 1940s and 1950s, Ravi S. Vasudevan 16. 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun?' - cinephilia and Indian films, Lalitha Gopalan 17. Shifting pitch: The Bollywood Song sequence in the Anglo-American market, Ian Garwood Section 6 Questions of Authorship and Taiwanese Cinema Film authorship and Taiwanese cinema, Gary Needham and I-Fen Wu 18. Ozu and the colonial encounter in Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Gary Needham 19. Tokyo love story and NY bagels: East-West cultural encounter in Edward Yang's Taipei Story, I-Fen Wu 20. The transnational cinema of Ang Lee, Julianne Pidduck Section 7 Stardom: The Case of Bruce Lee Bruce Lee: stardom and identity, Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham 21. Bruce Lee: narcissus and the little dragon, Stephen Teo 22. Han's Island revisited: Enter the Dragon as transnational cult film, Leon Hunt 23. Fists of fury: discourses of race and masculinity in the martial arts cinema, Yvonne Tasker Bibliography Index of films/TV programmes Index of key terms.