ABSTRACT

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The topics explored in this collection include the innovation of Hollywood generic formulas into 1950's and 1960's Hong Kong and Japanese films; the examination of Thai and Japanese raced and gendered identity in Asian and American films; the reception of Hollywood films in pre-1949 China and millennial Japan; the production and performance of Asian adoptee identity and subjectivity; the political implications and interpretations of migrating Chinese female stars; and the production and reception of pan-Pacific co-productions.

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part |58 pages

Remixing/Remaking Formulas

chapter |14 pages

Hong Kong Noir

American Film Noir and Asian Innovation, 1956–66

chapter |14 pages

Drunken Master Meets the Monkey King

Transnational Chinese Identities in Action

chapter |15 pages

Shoot-Out in Hokkaido

The “Wanderer” (Wataridori) Series and the Politics of Transnationality

chapter |13 pages

Cultural Odor in the Global Order

Globalization and the Raced Japanese Body

part |71 pages

Perception/Reception

chapter |13 pages

Learning Bushidō from Abroad

Japanese Reactions to The Last Samurai

chapter |14 pages

Illegitimate Gloss

From Anna Leonowens' Tuptim to Contemporary Thai American Sexploitation

chapter |13 pages

Translating Hollywood Film to Chinese Audience

The Role of Agency and Appropriation in Transnational Cultural Encounters

chapter |14 pages

Questions of Cultural Proximity and the “Asian Popular”

South Korean Audiences Watching Zhang Yimou's Martial Arts Blockbusters

chapter |15 pages

Trans-Action

Epic Tensions and Ethics of Memory in East Asian Co-Productions

part |44 pages

Female Fandom/Stardom

chapter |14 pages

Migrating West … to the East

Transnational Chinese Canadians in Post-1997 Hong Kong Action

chapter |14 pages

From National Allegory to Global Commodity

The Cinematic Images of Gong Li

chapter |14 pages

The Transnational Journey of O Ren Ishii

The American Cultification of the Asian Female Avenger

part |45 pages

Emerging Subjectivities

chapter |14 pages

Mysterious Object of Desire

The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

chapter |15 pages

Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama

Seven Orphans of Cape No. 7