Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cinemas or definitive cultural boundaries. Case studies illuminate the ambiguously gendered star persona of Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress Brigitte Lin, the fictional realism of director Jia Zhangke, the arcane process of selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and the intimate connection between cinema and identity in Hirokazu Koreeda s Afterlife (1998). Considering films, their audiences and tastemaking institutions, the book argues that cosmopolitan cinema does not smooth over difference, but rather puts it on display."
Author(s): Felicia Chan, Julian Ross, Lúcia Nagib
Publisher: I.B. Tauris;
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 224
Cover
Half-title
Endorsements
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the cinema
1 The cosmopolitan challenge of multilingual cinema
Multilingual Chineseness in Hong Kong cinema
Dubbing and subtitling in Japanese animation
Must cosmopolitanism speak?
Concluding remarks
2 Cosmopolitan memory and self-reflexive cinema
Self-reflexive memory and witness
Self-reflexive memory and performance
Self-reflexivity and (animated) form
Concluding remarks
3 Film festivals and cosmopolitan affect
Filmic encounters
Spatial encounters
Cultural literacy and cosmopolitan affect
‘What a wonderful film!’
‘How can you show a film like this?!’
‘That film, very good!’
Concluding remarks
4 Embodiment as (cosmopolitan) encounter
Gallery bodies and films
Embodiment and encounter
Cosmopolitan geographies
The cosmopolitan body
Postscript: Critical cosmopolitanism and comparative cinema
Notes
Foreword
Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the cinema
1 The cosmopolitan challenge of multilingual cinema
2 Cosmopolitan memory and self-reflexive cinema
3 Film festivals and cosmopolitan affect
4 Embodiment as (cosmopolitan) encounter
Postscript: Critical cosmopolitanism and comparative cinema
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
