MACMILLAN The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema

1. Introduction: "Asia" and Asian Cinema, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Gina Marchetti, and Tan See-Kam.- Section I: Defining Asian Cinema in the 21st Century.- 2. The Desire for a Continental Poly-Asian Cinema Movement, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park.- 3. Cinema and Development: Towards an Ideological History of Asian Cinema as "World Cinema", Derek Lam.- 4. Theorizing Other Asian Cinemas: The Sensorium of Transcaucasia, Anne Ciecko.- 5. East Asia's Film Business, Ruby Cheung.- 6. Alibaba Goes to the Movies, Mark Gallagher.- 7. New Media/New Asia: Dominant and Residual Geographies of Emerging Media Arts, Stephanie DeBoer.- Section II: Locating the New Asian Cinema: Changing Aesthetics, Distribution Networks, and Global Connections.- 8. Locating Turkish Cinema: Traditional Eastern Aesthetics to Western Modernity, Murat Akser.- 9. The Asian Documentary Connections: From the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) to the Asian Network of Documentary (AND), Ma Ran.- 10. Small Asias Outside of Asia-Asian Film Festivals in Europe, Eija Niskanen.- 11. Distributing and Marketing Asian Cinema: Definitions from DVD Labels, Jonathan Wroot.- 12. Contemporary Japanese Viewership: Revisiting the Cinema, Jennifer Coates.- Section III: Asian History in the Making.- 13. Peace Before the Storm: Japanese Cinematographers and Their Asian Imagination in the 1920s-30s, Daisuke Miyao.- 14. Reframing Loss: Japanese Cinematic Melancholia in Inter-Asian Contexts , Earl Jackson, Jr..- 15. Mao and Gandhi in the Fight Against Corruption: Popular Film and Social Change in China and India, Krista Van Fleit Hang.- 16. Colonial Censorship and the Cultural Politics of Chinese-language Cinemas in the Cold War, Kenny K. K. Ng.- 17. The Long Roads to Global Hollywood: Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and Dalian Wanda, Tan See-Kam.- Section IV: Remaking Asia and the Asian Diaspora-New Tales of an (Un) Common Past.- 18. Martial Arts Fantasies in a Globalized Age: Kung Fu Hustle and Kung Fu Panda, Jing Yang.- 19.Taipei and Tokyo: Turf Wars Over Identity, Yun Xia.- 20. Aspirationally Yours: Pan-Asian Cinematic Convergence, Staci Ford.- 21. Transnational Asian Cinema through the Lens of Cinephiles and Transmedia Fans, Wikanda Promkhuntong.- 22. Two "Asian" Stories in New Zealand Cinema, Elena Kolesova.- Section V: Questioning Asian Bodies.- 23. The Asian Wave: Three Asian Male  Superstars in Hollywood, Valerie Soe.- 24. War Movies and Fractured Notions of Masculinity, Minoo Moallem.- 25. Reconfiguring Confucianism and Filial Piety in Contemporary Korean Cinema: Mother-son Bonding in Mother and  The Peter Pan Formula, Jason Ka-hang Ho.- 26. Unbecomings in East Asian Women's Cinema: Naomi Kawase, Yim Soon-rye, and Li Yu, Mila Zuo.- 27. Between Real and Unreal: Representability and Auteurship in Queer Hong Kong Cinema, Zoran Pecic.- 28. Exploring the Dolphy Bakla: Queerness in Philippine Cinema, Mikee Inton.- Section VI: Politics in Asian Film.- 29. Policies and Film Content in South Korea, Japan, and China: What Stories Do Their Films Tell?, Bruno Lovric.- 30. Recalibrating Modernity: East Asian Socially Engaged Documentary and the Evocation of Another World, Dan Edwards.- 31. For Some Dreams a Lifetime Is Not Enough: Popular Bombay Cinema and Its Anti-capitalist Time Consciousness, Jyotsna Kapur.- 32. Local Stories, Global Catastrophe: Reconstructing the Nation, Asian Cinema and Asian Eco-Consciousness in Japan's 3.11 Films, Winnie L. M. Yee and Kiu-wai Chu.- 33. Clara Law, Asia and World Cinema, Gina Marchetti.  Review “This essential collection provides an illuminating and thought-provoking exploration of some of the key debates in the fast-growing field of Asian cinema. Guiding readers through the historical, political and conceptual possibilities opened by Asia’s dynamic screen industries, the editors have assembled a valuable resource that will set the tone for scholarly interventions to come.” (Olivia Khoo, Mon