East Asian Cinemas

CONTENTS

1. Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai, 'Introduction'

Part One: Global Encounters of the First Kind

2. David Desser, 'Remaking Seven Samurai in World Cinema'
3. Gary Needham, 'Fashioning Social Change in the Hong Kong Musical 1957-1964'
4. Charles Leary, 'The Shadow of an Airplane over East Asia: Worldly Hong Kong Cinema'

Part Two: All Changing on the Eastern Front

5. Leung Wing-Fai, 'Infernal Affairs and Kung Fu Hustle: Panacea, Placebo and Hong Kong Cinema'
6. Chris Howard, 'Contemporary South Korean Cinema: National Conjunction and Diversity'
7. Rayna Denison, 'The Language of the Blockbuster: Promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture'

Part Three: Made in Translation - Transnational Identities

8. Adam Knee, 'Suriyothai Becomes Legend: National Identity as Global Currency'
9. Brian Ruh, 'Last Life in the Universe: Nationality, Technology, Authorship'
10. David Scott Diffrient, 'From Three Godfathers to Tokyo Godfathers:
Signifying Social Change in a Transnational Context'
11. Theresa Geller, 'Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Kaizo Hayashi's The Most Terrible Time of My Life'

Part Four: How the West Was Won? Asianisation and Beyond

12. Gang Gary Xu, 'Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood'
13. Nikki J.Y. Lee, 'Salute to Mr Vengeance: Oldboy and the Making of a Transnational Auteur'
14. Leon Hunt, 'Asiaphilia, Asianisation and the Gatekeeper Auteur: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson'
15. Sheng-mei Ma, 'Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures'