Overview
- Provides the first comparative study of the two fast-growing film industries: Hong Kong and Bollywood
- Offers an overview of new cinematic trends from Hong Kong and Bollywood, and the challenges they pose to Hollywood
- Critically examines issues of cinema as they relate to globalization, glocalization, and transnationalism
Part of the book series: Global Cinema (GLOBALCINE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Politics of Representation and Representation of Politics
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The Crisis of Representation and Representation of Crisis
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The Aesthetics of Representation and Representation of Aesthetics
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About this book
This volume examines the transmission, reception, and reproduction of new cinematic styles, meanings, practices, and norms in early twenty-first-century Asia. Hong Kong and Bollywood offers new answers to the field of inter-Asian cultural studies, which has been energized by the trends towards transnationalism and translatability. It brings together a team of international scholars to capture the latest development in the film industries of Hong Kong and Mumbai, and to explore similar cross-cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues. It also explains how Hong Kong and Bollywood filmmakers have gone beyond the traditional focus on nationalism, urbanity and biculturalism to reposition themselves as new cultural forces in the pantheon of global cinema.
Reviews
“Focusing on the political realities and sociocultural developments of two seemingly discrete cities, Hong Kong and Bollywood sketches a tangible specimen of globalization in action. The fifteen chapters are thematically woven together, as Lee and Kolluri draw on their expertise and insight into contemporary China and India as the chief tools for forging a convincing analysis of modern Asian films. This book will be of immense interest to cineastes, scholars and students of contemporary Asia–a milestone.” (Lars Peter Laamann, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is Professor of History and Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at Pace University, USA.
Satish Kolluri is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Pace University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hong Kong and Bollywood
Book Subtitle: Globalization of Asian Cinemas
Editors: Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Satish Kolluri
Series Title: Global Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94932-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-94931-1Published: 28 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95677-7Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-94932-8Published: 27 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-5951
Series E-ISSN: 2634-596X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 300
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Globalization