Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia

Daniel Black is a Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University.Olivia Khoo is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University.Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Monash University.

• Introduction: A Trans-Asia Approach to Cultural and Media Studies / Part I: Topography of Trans-Asia 1. A Postcolonial Amnesia, Ariel Heryanto / 2. Hollywood North, Asiawood West: Vancouver as a Transpacific Film Location / / 3. The Yellow Pacific: East Asian Pop Culture and East Asian Modernities, Younghan Cho, Helen Hok-Sze Leung / Part II: Media and Muslim Cultures / 4. Who wants to be a (Muslim) Millionaire? Motivation, Modernity and the Power of Positive Narratives in Contemporary Indonesia, Meg Downes / 5. Modern Manuals and Islamic Inspiration: Negotiating modernity in Malaysian Islamic-themed cinema, Leonie Schmidt / 6. Re-embedding Media Trajectories of the Islamic Resurgence, Julian Millie Part III: Cultural Politics Across Borders: Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality / 7. Desiring the Mainstream/Enchantment as Tactic (of Recognition): Minority Visuality in Hong Kong South Asian Youth’s Short Films, Lisa Leung Yuk-ming / 8. ‘Long Live Cuteness’: S.H.E.’s ‘Girl Power’ and the Negotiations with Nationalisms in ‘Pop Culture China, Irene Yang Fang-Chih and Liew Kai Khiun / 9. Picturing Queer India(s), Shalmalee Palekar / Part IV: Digital Media and Social Action / 10. A Portrait of the Creative Worker as a Young Economic Man: Digital Creative Labour in South Korea, Yeran Kim / 11. The Political Styles of Online Activism in China, Guobin Yang and Wei Wang / 12. Media, Place, Sociality and National Publics: Chinese International Students in Translocal Networks, Fran Martin / Afterword, John N. Erni / Index

This volume brings together a refreshing set of chapters focusing on the diverse and dynamic landscape of contemporary Asian media and culture. Adopting what the editors call a ‘trans-Asian’ approach and adopting an expansive notion of ‘Asia’ that extends beyond discrete nation-states and conventional regional boundaries, the volume is testimony to the coming into maturity of Asian and Asian-diasporic scholarship in the field.