Asian Video Cultures

Joshua Neves is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.Bhaskar Sarkar is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction  1Part I. Infrastructures1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China / Jenny Chio  352. EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia / Patricia R. Zimmerman  543. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices / Chia-chi Wu  724. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology / Marc Steinberg  915. In Access: Digital Video and the User / Nishant Shah  114Part II. Intimacies6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh  1337. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung  1588. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey  1769. The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works / Feng-Mei Heberer  198Part III. Speculations10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions / S. V. Srinivas  21711. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture / Michelle Cho  24012. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection / Joshua Neves  26613. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh  28814. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson  307Bibliography  327Contributors  349Index  353

"Asian Video Cultures addresses a glaring omission in contemporary Western film and media scholarship in such a rich and imaginative way that it will give the book lasting significance as a fundamental reference across media studies. Featuring rich, thought-provoking essays and a major, agenda-setting introduction, this is a milestone collection." -- Meaghan Morris, coeditor of Gender, Media, and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific "Asian Video Cultures addresses the continent as an always-emerging formation, rather than just a region. By doing so, it is able to mount a series of powerful, ethnographically grounded theoretical provocations on contemporary media culture. We revisit ideas of participation and the public, the status of mediation in the bioinformatic world, globalization, and work. This outstanding collection helps us put into perspective the overly North American debate on digital media." -- Ravi Sundaram, author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism