Melodrama and Asian cinema
"Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries. 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 with theoretical sophistication the various ways that melodrama operates, the essays contained in this volume shed light on the…
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- Full title :Melodrama and Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake.
Summary
"Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries. 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 with theoretical sophistication the various ways that melodrama operates, the 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."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:1993.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 281 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521414652, 9780521414654, 052161208X, 9780521612081
- oclc:ocm26160021
- 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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