Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia
Creekmur, Corey K. (EDT)
Sidel, Mark (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
This book crosses the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema. It not only addresses the representation of law on screen (for example, through discussions of how lawyers, police, and prisons
Submit a book reviewBOOK SYNOPSIS
This book crosses the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema. It not only addresses the representation of law on screen (for example, through discussions of how lawyers, police, and prisons are depicted, or how courtroom sequences function as narratives), but also focuses on how the state shapes and regulates cinema. The volume addresses the distinct contexts of China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam, along with an integrative introduction that puts the essays and themes into context for scholars and students alike.
AUTHOR BIO
Corey Creekmur is Associate Professor of English and Cinema, Comparative Literature Director, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa. Mark Sidel is Professor of Law and International Affairs, University of Iowa, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction * PART I: INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA * Islamic Terrorism, Secularism, and Visions of Justice in India: Khalid Mohameds Fiza--Priya Kumar * Cinematic Citizenship and the Illegal City--Lawrence Liang * Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Hindi Popular Cinema--Corey K. Creekmur * Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the New Bollywood--Meenakshi Gigi Durham * PART II: SOUTHEAST ASIA * Flexible Justice: A Woman Directs the Camera in Post-War Vietnam--Karen Turner * Bar Girls (Gai Nhay), Heavens Net (Luoi Troi), and the Rise of a New Realist Cinema in Vietnam--Mark Sidel * Judicial Lack and Excess: Postcolonial Condition, Transnational Desire, and the Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema--Rolando Tolentino * PART III: EAST ASIA * The Road Taken (Seontaek): Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in South Korea--Do-Hyun Han * Oshimas Bullfight of Love Reconsidered: Law, Sexually Explicit Film, and Gender in Japanese Cinema--Hikari Hori * Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen in the Pre-War Era--Alison Conner * Paradigms of Law and the State in Zhang Yimous Filmmaking--Mary Farquhar * Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen--Yingjin Zhang Introduction * PART I: INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA * Islamic Terrorism, Secularism, and Visions of Justice in India: Khalid Mohameds Fiza--Priya Kumar * Cinematic Citizenship and the Illegal City--Lawrence Liang * Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Hindi Popular Cinema--Corey K. Creekmur * Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the New Bollywood--Meenakshi Gigi Durham * PART II: SOUTHEAST ASIA * Flexible Justice: A Woman Directs the Camera in Post-War Vietnam--Karen Turner * Bar Girls (Gai Nhay), Heavens Net (Luoi Troi), and the Rise of a New Realist Cinema in Vietnam--Mark Sidel * Judicial Lack and Excess: Postcolonial Condition, Transnational Desire, and the Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema--Rolando Tolentino * PART III: EAST ASIA * The Road Taken (Seontaek): Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in South Korea--Do-Hyun Han * Oshimas Bullfight of Love Reconsidered: Law, Sexually Explicit Film, and Gender in Japanese Cinema--Hikari Hori * Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen in the Pre-War Era--Alison Conner * Paradigms of Law and the State in Zhang Yimous Filmmaking--Mary Farquhar * Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen--Yingjin Zhang
BOOK REVIEWS
"Cinema may have always been an international language, but the law remains largely defined by territorial boundaries. In these circumstances, the country-by-country essays in this remarkable anthology considering how the law is represented and how the law shapes cinema in Asia are both necessary and original. In fact, many of the accounts of gangsters on-screen and off are quite an eye-opener! Each essay is autonomous, rigorous and highly original. Ranging from censorship to film piracy and courtroom dramas in India, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan and China, Cinema, Law and the State in Asia is as diverse, lively, fast-moving and engaging as those crime films we all love."--Chris Berry, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403977518
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403977519
Dewey Decimal: 343.509/9
Library of Congress: 2006048076
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 238
