Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema write by Peter C. Pugsley. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, cinematic texts from the nations of Asia are increasingly capturing audiences beyond their national boundaries. Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema explores the rise of popular Asian cinema and provides an understanding of the aesthetic elements that mark these films as 'Asian cinema'. Incorporating examples of contemporary films from China, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and India, Peter C. Pugsley gives readers a fresh insight into the rapidly developing discourse on popular Asian media. The book's chapters focus on the aesthetic features of national cinemas and the intersections of local/global encountered in the production, distribution and consumption of contemporary Asian films. By tracking across some of the most influential countries in Asia the book is able to offer new perspectives into the visual and aural features that create greater understanding between East and West. As distribution and technological advances make Asian films more readily available, an understanding of the different aesthetics at play will enable readers of this book to recognise key cultural motifs found in cinematic texts from Asia.
Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema
Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema write by Peter C. Pugsley. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that arise over aesthetic styles and the cultural and traditional influences that determine the content and impact of these films. The social and regulatory environments for filmmakers across Asia reflect distinct national and cultural differences. In just the past decade, for instance, Indian cinema has rapidly moved from representations of coy and submissive female protagonists to highly eroticized leading ladies unafraid of flaunting their sexuality. On the other hand, the cinema emerging from the Chinese mainland has been much more circumspect in its representations of overt sexuality, at times in conflict with other Chinese cinemas from Hong Kong and Taiwan. This use of sexual imagery or morally questionable film content raises on-going debates into censorship and the use of state or industry controls to protect certain sectors of society from exposure to particular narratives or images. Film, like all forms of art, fulfils a number of aesthetic functions for local, regional and international audiences. As distribution and technological advances make Asian films more readily available across the globe, an understanding of the different aesthetics at play will enable readers of this book to recognize key cultural motifs in representations of onscreen sexuality and the surrounding controversies found in cinematic texts from Asia.
Contemporary Asian Cinema
Contemporary Asian Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Asian Cinema write by Tereska Ciecko Anne. This book was released on 2006-02. Contemporary Asian Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presenting an authoritative assessment of contemporary Asian cinema, this work describes the cultural aspects of popular film production, analyzing key films in the context of the national, the regional and the global.
Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema
Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema write by Peter Pugsley. This book was released on 2015. Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Asian Cinema Experience
The Asian Cinema Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Asian Cinema Experience write by Stephen Teo. This book was released on 2013-05-07. The Asian Cinema Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component – this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema.
