Genre in Asian film and television: new approaches/  
edited by Felicia Chan, Angelina Karpovich, Xin Zhang. 
 - Basingstoke :   Palgrave Macmillan,   2011. 
 - xi, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record.<br/>Includes bibliographical references and index.<br/>Service provider: Ebook Central<br/>Document.<br/>System details: PDF.<br/>FELICIA CHAN RCUK Fellow in Film, Media and Transnational Cultures at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester, UK. She has strong interests in transnational Chinese and Japanese cinematic cultures. She is also co-founder of the Chinese Film Forum UK, a Manchester-based collaborative network set up for the research and promotion of transnational Chinese films. ANGELINA KARPOVICH Lecturer in Multimedia and Broadcasting Technology at Brunel University, UK. She is an anthropologist and filmmaker, and has published work on media audiences, media technologies, and the relationship between the moving image and modernity. XIN ZHANG worked as a television news producer and broadcaster in China before completing a PhD on Chinese television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. She currently works as an independent researcher in Switzerland.<br/>English<br/>Palgrave Connect eBook<br/> 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Felicia Chan and Angelina Karpovich --<br/>Part I. Non-Fiction Gengres: 1. Live or dead?: televised theatre and its audiences in Bali / Mark Hobart; 2. Law through a hybrid genre in Solomon's Choice: a case study of a reflection on law education through television in Korea / Ji Yun Park; 3. Eyes of the other: the role of Chinese women through the lens of documentary films / Cecilia J. Pang; 4. Almost propaganda but not quite: identity, modernity, and the construction of 'The Native' in Gift of life and Viva tonal / Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao --<br/>Part II. Reconsidering Mainstream Genres: 5. Between mainstream and alternative: dialect drama in China / Xin Zhang; 6. Everything masala?: genres in Tamil cinema / Michael Christopher; 7. Defreezing notions of the Indian mythological / T. Vishnu Vardhan; 8. The Hindi horror film: notes on the realism of a marginal genre / Valentina Vitali; 9. From genre flick to art film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to kill and Pistol opera / Temenuga Trifonova --<br/>Part III. Genre and Cross-Cultural Representation: 10. (In)Action film: genre and identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle / Angelina Karpovich; 11. The golden glow of the Alps: capitalism, globalization and Anime's dreams of Europe / Cobus van Staden; 12. The other and the neighbour: negotiating representations of 'Asia' in Bengali films / Madhuja Mukherjee; 13. Genre as cultural whimsy: taking to the road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever / Felicia Chan; 14. East Asian pop culture / Chua Beng Huat. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230272170 0230272177 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Documentary films -- Asia<br/>Motion pictures -- Asia<br/>Television programs -- Asia<br/>PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General;<br/>PERFORMING ARTS -- Television-- General; <br/> SOCIAL SCIENCE --Media Studies
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.436095  / CHA/G