Genre in Asian Film and Television

MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER PhD candidate, Berlin, GermanyCHUA BENG HUAT Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, National University of SingaporeMARK HOBART Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at the Centre for Media and Film Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK HSIEN-HAO SEBASTIAN LIAO Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanMADHUJA MUKHERJEE Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IndiaCECILIA J. PANG Associate Professor and Head of Performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USAJI YUN PARK Lecturer at the University of Paris 8, FranceTEMENUGA TRIFONOVA Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto, Canada VISHNU T. VARDHAN PhD candidate at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster and the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, IndiaCOBUS VAN STADEN PhD graduate from the University of Nagoya, Japan, and currently working in Johannesburg for the South African Broadcasting CorporationVALENTINA VITALI Lecturer in Film History and Theory at the University of East London, UK

• Introduction; F.Chan & A.Karpovich PART I: NON-FICTION GENRES Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali; M.Hobart Law Through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon's Choice : A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education Through Television in Korea; J.Y.Park Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women Through the Lens of Documentary Films; C.J.Pang Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity, and the Construction of 'The Native' in Two Recent Taiwanese Documentaries; H.S.Liao PART II: RECONSIDERING MAINSTREAM GENRES Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China; X.Zhang Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema; M.Christopher De-Freezing Notions of the Indian Mythological; V.T.Vardhan The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre; V.Vitali From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera ; T.Trifonova PART III: GENRE AND CROSS-CULTURAL REPRESENTATION (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle ; A.Karpovich The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime's Dreams of Europe; C.van Staden The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of 'Asia' in Bengali Films; M.Mukherjee Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever ; F.Chan East Asian Pop Culture;  Chua Beng Huat   Index

'By studying screen genres in tandem with Asian cultures, this collection provides wide-ranging views of the mediatized discursive formations taking shape around a major geopolitical nexus. A richly informed and informative contribution.' - Rey Chow, Duke University, USA 'This is a welcome, necessary and indeed long-overdue collection on Asian film and television, conceived on the basis of the highly original genres they either generated or creatively remodelled. The impressive array of specialised contributors, as well as the detailed textual and contextual analyses they undertake at each chapter, invariably stand out for their unique insights and sovereign independence from the usual paradigms provided by Western genres. This will be required reading for anyone interested in Asia and its formidable audiovisual output.' - Lucia Nagib, Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds, UK 'Genre in Asian Film and Television shows that there is still a need for this kind of study by demonstrating ways in which multiple Asian cinemas can be discussed collectively without losing sight of cultural specificity.' - Frames Cinema Journal