The Cold War and Asian Cinemas

ISBN-13: 9781138353817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str.

Poshek Fu; Man-Fung Yip

Opis

This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict.　 It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus.

Spis treści

; Introduction; ; Part I: Transnational Connections ; ; Art in Propaganda: The Poetics and Politics of Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema; ; Incomplete Pictures: Mediated Immediacy in the South Korean Newsreel, The Frontline in Vietnam ; ; Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in Cold War China; ; Contested Chineseness and Third Sister Liu in Singapore and Hong Kong: Folk Songs, Landscape, and Cold War Politics in Asia ; ; Part II: Global Conflicts, Local Formations ; ; Educational Films in Postwar Japan: Traces of American Cultural Policies in the Cold War Period; The Cold War as Media Environment in 1960s Japanese Cinema; ; Vehicles of Modernity: Gender, Mobility and Music in Evan Yang’s MP&GI films; ; Socks and Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Sentinels under the Neon Lights (1964); ; Archive Revisionisms: Reevaluating South Korea’s State Film Censorship of the Cold War Era; Indian Cinema, Indian Democracy: An Unusual Cold War Saga, 1947-1989; ; Part III: Struggle for Hearts and Minds; ; Tropical Cold War Horror: Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI and the Traumatized Culture of Suharto’s New Order; ; Entertainment and Propaganda: Hong Kong Cinema, 1946-1959; ; The End of an Era: The Cultural Revolution, Modernization, and the Demise of Hong Kong Leftist Cinema; ; Who Views Whom through Whose Lenses? The Gazes in USIS Film Propaganda in South Korea; ;