Theorizing Colonial Cinema

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Program in Cinematic Arts at Duke University. She is the Founding Director of Duke's Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program and Co-director of the Andrew Mellon Games and Culture Humanities Lab. Her most recent monograph is Intimate Empire. Takushi Odagiri is Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy in the Institute of Liberal Arts and Science and in the School of Social Innovation Studies at Kanazawa University. His publications appear in positions: asia critique, boundary 2, Journal of Religion, and Tetsugaku, among other venues. Moonim Baek is Professor of Korean Language amd Literature at Yonsei University. She is the author of Chum A-ut: Hankuk Yŏnghwa ŭi Chŏngch'ihak (Zoom-Out: Politics of Korean Cinema), Hyŏngŏn: Munhakkwa yŏnghwa ŭi wŏnkŭnpŏp (Figural Images: Perspectives on Literature and Film), Wŏlha ŭi Yŏkoksŏng: Yŏkwiro Ponŭn Hankuk Kongpoyŏnghwasa (Scream under the Moon: Korean Horror Film History through Female Ghosts), and Im Hwa ŭi Yŏnghwa (Im Hwa's Cinema).

• AcknowledgmentsOn Romanization, Naming and TranslationIntroduction, by Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Takushi OdagiriPart I: "Time and Racialized Other: Colonial Modernity and Early Cinema"1. Time, Race, and the Asynchronous in the Colonial Documentaries of Malaya, by Nadine Chan2. Facing Malcontent Colonial Korean Comrades: A Typology of Colonial Cinema in Asia's Socialist Alliances, by Moonim Baek3. Colonial-Era Film Theory, Spectatorship, and the Problem of Internalization, by Aaron Gerow4. Chinese Cinema's Other: Wrangling over "China-humiliating" Films (ruHua pian), by Yiman Wang5. World Export: Melodramas of Colonial Conquest, by Jane Marie GainesPart II: "Divided Mis-en-Scène: Colonial Cinema and Cold War Afterimages"6. Tarzan/Taishan and Other Orphans: Taiwan's Melodrama of Decolonization, by Zhang Zhen7. What Is an Auteur? Hŏ Yŏng/Hinatsu Eitarō/Huyung Between (Post)Colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea, by Thomas A. C. Barker and Nikki J. Y. LeePart III: "Millennial Hauntings: Rising Global Asian Cinemas"8. Cinema's Coloniality, by Takushi Odagiri9. A Hallucinatory History of the Philippine-American War: Khavn's Balangiga: Howling Wilderness, by José B. Capino10. Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-Wook's Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme, by Nayoung Aimee KwonIndex

This collection's theoretical advancement not only expands the understanding of the periods and films studied in it, but is applicable to the study of other colonial and neocolonial periods.- María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez (JUMP CUT : Review of Contemporary Media) Due to its sheer scope, this volume is valuable not only for film scholars but also for those interested in postcolonial studies, as it ofers useful frameworks to rethink colonialism itself in the context of Asia. More specifically, film scholars interested in early cinema histories or decolonial historiography, as well as those interested in the transpacific and the transnational as broader frameworks, can find this volume deeply insightful.- Syeda Momina Masood (Journal of Asian Studies)