Melodrama and Asian cinema
Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. Exploring the various ways that melodrama operates with theoretical sophistication, the various essays contained in this volume shed light on the different traditions of Asian cinema, as well as on the wider cult…
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- Full title :Melodrama and Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake.
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Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. Exploring the various ways that melodrama operates with theoretical sophistication, the various essays contained in this volume shed light on the different traditions of Asian cinema, as well as on the wider cultural discourse in which they participate.
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- Publication Date:1993
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (281 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139172523, 1139172522, 9780521414654, 0521414652, 9780521612081, 052161208X
- DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139172523
- oclc:ocn967417144
- LC Classification:PN1993.5.A75
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/095
Table of Contents
Melodrama/subjectivity/ideology : Western melodrama theories and their relevance to recent Chinese cinema / E. Ann Kaplan -- Symbolic representation and symbolic violence : Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980s / Ma Ning -- The goddess : reflections on melodrama East and West / William Rothman -- Melodrama as historical understanding : the making and unmaking of communist history / Yuejin Wang -- Melodrama, postmodernism, and Japanese cinema / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Inscribing the subject : the melodramatization of gender in An actor's revenge / Scott Nygren -- Insides and outsides : cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama / Catherine Russell -- Psyches, ideologies, and melodrama : the United States and Japan / Maureen Turim.
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