Exploiting East Asian Cinemas

Ken Provencher has taught film and media studies at Josai International University in Tokyo, Japan, and Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. His work focuses on the transnational Hollywood industry, especially its relation to East Asian media industries and popular cultures. He has contributed to The Companion to Wong Kar-wai, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and The Velvet Light Trap, among others.Mike Dillon teaches film and media studies at California State University, Fullerton. His research focuses on the relationship between media cultures and transnational human mobility. His publications include essays in Journal of South Asian Film and Media Studies, Mediascape, and Reconstruction, among other; and chapters in the anthologies Negative Cosmopolitanisms and Transnational Horror Cinema.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForeword Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham, UK)Notes on TextEditors' IntroductionKen Provencher (Josai International University, Japan) and Mike Dillon (California State University at Fullerton, USA)Part I: Genres Without Borders1. Steampunked Kung Fu: Technologized Modernity in Stephen Fung’s Tai Chi Films Kenneth Chan (University of Northern Colorado, USA)2. Oru kaiju dai shingeki (All monsters attack!): The regional and transnational exploitation of the kaiju eiga Steven Rawle (York St. John University, UK)3. Blood and Blades: Transnational Heroic Violence in Twilight Samurai and The Last Samurai Ken Provencher (Josai International University, Japan)Part II: The Exploitation Marketplace4. Dragons, Ninjas, and Kickboxers: The Minor Transnational Action Films of IFD Man-Fung Yip (University of Oklahoma, USA)5. Asia Restrained: J-Horror’s Poor Beginnings and the Mismarketing of Excess Tom Mes (The Midnight Eye)6. Gifting Beauty: The Exploitations of Fan Bingbing Mila Zuo (Oregon State University, USA)Part III: Exploitation, Art, and Politics7. Kitano’s Outrageous Exploitation Cinema: Yakuza Nobility and the Biopolitics of Crime Elena del Río (University of Alberta, Canada)8. A Cinematic Half-Twist: Art, Exploitation, and the Subversion of Sexual Norms in Kim Ki-duk’s Moebius Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State University, USA)9. Hara Kazuo and Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974) Jun Okada (State University of New York at Geneseo, USA)10. Don’t Bother to Dispatch the FBI: Representations of Serial Killers in New Korean Cinema Kyu Hyun Kim (University of California Davis, USA)Select BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This anthology is an excellent contribution to the growing area of transnational and trans-cultural studies in this area. Expertly written by contributors who are well known authorities in this area and well-documented, this proves to be one of the most important anthologies in developing work in this area. Highly recommended.