East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea

by Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia

• ISBN13: 9780230116955
• ISBN10: 0230116957
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages "traditional" elements including martial arts, music, landscape, aesthetics, stage performances, and legends and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

Author Biography

Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia is a associate professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2003. Recent publications include Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries: Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks (2010), Chinese-Japanese-Korean Cinemas: History, Society, and Culture (2010), and An Oral History of Japanese and Hong Kong Filmmakers: Foes to Friends (2011). She is the recipient of the Young Researcher Award 2008 (CUHK), and a Harvard-Yenching Institute visiting scholar, 2010-2011.

Table of Contents

Reclaiming a Legacy, Reinventing the Nation: The epic martial arts drama--David Desser * Forging a Global Soundscape: Inventing a ‘Chinese’ heritage or succumbing to mainstream sonic culture of Western movies?--Siu-wah Yu * Contested Heritage: cinema, collective memory, and the politics of local heritage in Hong Kong--Vivian P. Y. Lee * Traditional Chinese Aesthetics and Contemporary Chinese Films: Applying the idea of qiyun to understand the temporal structure of selected films of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wong Kar-wai--Wai-luk Lo * Reading the Glove Puppetry in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster--Wenchi Lin * A ‘Horrible’ Legacy: Noh and J-horror--Kinnia Yau * The Loyal 47 Ronin Never Die: Influence of Chushingura on Japanese war films--Kinnia Yau * Bringing the Tradition to the Modern--Shin-dong Kim * Constructing East Asian Cinema through Cultural Geopolitics: King Hu’s Come Drink with Me (1966) and the evolution of Korean martial arts films and literatures in the 1960s--Sang-joon Lee