The Asian Cinema Experience: Styles, Spaces, Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415571463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

Stephen Teo

Opis

This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of 'Asian Cinema'.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Styles  1. Kurosawa and Classical Style in Asian Cinema  2. Satyajit Ray and the Indian Sensitivity of Affect  3. The Historical Blockbuster Style  4. The Abstract Transnational Style of Anime  5. Asian Horror and the Ghost-Story Style  6. The ‘Bollywood’ Style  Part 2: Spaces  7. Space in Asian Melodrama  8. Iranian Cinema and Inward Space  9. Domestic Space and the Family in South Korean Cinema  10. Erotic Space in Asian Films  Part 3: Theory  11. The World and Asian Cinema  12. Asian Cinema and Other Cinemas

O autorze

Stephen Teo is Associate Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore