Genre In Asian Film And Television

Genre in Asian Film and Television interrogates the notions of 'Asia' and 'genre' through various case studies of cross-national and cross-cultural production, representation and reception. Each essay presents new or under-exposed research on various screen media in Asia. Areas of study include national film and television cultures, the politics of national representation and the cross-cultural reception of fiction and non-fiction film, as well as the reconsideration of mainstream film and television genres. Case studies include Indian mythological adaptations and horror films, Japanese B-movies, dialect television in China, representations of Europe in Japanese animation, Indonesian reality TV, East Asian pop culture and Central Asian cinema. The collection aims to shed new light on trans- and intra-Asian discourses on self, neighbour, and nationhood, beyond the old East-West dialectic, discourses whose complexity and richness are mirrored by equally acute and compelling approaches to cinematic and televisual genres.