Asian CinemaPub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.30.1.137_1
G. Marchetti, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Stacilee Ford
{"title":"Making the most of an MOOC on Asian film: Hong Kong Cinema Through a Global Lens: A Massive Open Online Course at the University of Hong Kong","authors":"G. Marchetti, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Stacilee Ford","doi":"10.1386/AC.30.1.137_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.30.1.137_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45154433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian CinemaPub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.30.1.129_1
S. Lu
{"title":"The first screenings of Lumière films in China: Conjectures and new findings","authors":"S. Lu","doi":"10.1386/AC.30.1.129_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.30.1.129_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/AC.30.1.129_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49550873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian CinemaPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.29.2.225_1
K. Taylor-Jones
{"title":"Girlhood, bride-kidnapping and the postsocialist moment in Mángshān (Blind Mountain) (Li, 2007) and Boz Salkyn (Pure Coolness) (Abdyjaparov, 2007)","authors":"K. Taylor-Jones","doi":"10.1386/AC.29.2.225_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.29.2.225_1","url":null,"abstract":"China and Kyrgyzstan are at the point of national development where the interplay between a national past and a globalised future are still hotly debated. Both nations are at the crux of the global questions related to the universal dilemmas posed by the collapse of the revolutionary socialist challenge to the hegemony of capitalism (Sakwa 1999). This article will examine the interplay between gender and the vision of postsocialist modernity that is found in two films. Blind Mountain (Li, 2007) and Pure Coolness (Abdyjaparov, 2007) both present the respective stories of teenagers forced into marriage as part of a \"tradition\" that is supported by the broader local community (as opposed to been the act of an individual male kidnapper). I will explore how the girl simultaneously represents a vision of a localised space while operating as an indicative sign of cultural difference. In short, she is the site of the transmission of ideals of gender and modernity between moments in national development. We, therefore, see the girl caught in the crosshair of modernity, sexuality, tradition, nostalgia and capitalism in communities that, as will be explored, are struggling to find a sense of self in the Asian post-socialist moment.","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/AC.29.2.225_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42809753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian CinemaPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.29.2.189_1
P. Rist
{"title":"Jia Zhangke and Chinese painting","authors":"P. Rist","doi":"10.1386/AC.29.2.189_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.29.2.189_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/AC.29.2.189_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44481151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian CinemaPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.29.2.275_7
J. Leow
{"title":"An interview with Hong Kong sound designer Kinson Tsang","authors":"J. Leow","doi":"10.1386/AC.29.2.275_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.29.2.275_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/AC.29.2.275_7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47972404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian CinemaPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.29.2.175_1
A. Craven
{"title":"Where East-meets-West meets Asianization: Aesthetics, regionality and Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon","authors":"A. Craven","doi":"10.1386/AC.29.2.175_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.29.2.175_1","url":null,"abstract":"As a term of description, 'Asianization' characterizes the impact of aesthetic and narrative influences from Asian cinemas on co-produced or American films since the late twentieth century. The 'flexible citizenship' of filmmakers and aesthetic traditions stemming from East Asian cinemas are seen to have transformed the global action cinema, in particular. Analyses of the orientalism of self/other relations inscribed in Asianized western films permeate reception, in spite of the problematic nature of the paradigms of Orient and orientalism. This article problematizes Asianization by referring to the Asian masquerades in Hollywood cinema in the pre-Second World War era, and the orientalism and 'East meets West' mythos that underpins a number of these films. The main case study, Lost Horizon, a blockbuster produced by Columbia Pictures in 1937 and directed by the Italian American filmmaker, Frank Capra, is a prototype imagining of 'Asia'. It is a simulacra instilled through the trappings of costume, set, acted masquerade and elliptic narrative geographies, and facilitated by the racial proscriptions of the Motion Picture Association of America (Hays) Code of the era. The aesthetic discourse is marked, I argue, by duality whereby Asia is presented as both threat and paradise, a duality that resonates, if disparately, in the aesthetics of contemporary and twentieth-century Asianized films.","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/AC.29.2.175_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48676684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian CinemaPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1386/AC.29.2.243_1
Hing Tsang
{"title":"The poetics of (social) mise-en-scène and transcendence in Li Shaohong’s Stolen Life","authors":"Hing Tsang","doi":"10.1386/AC.29.2.243_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AC.29.2.243_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a formal analysis of the poetics of Li Shaohong’s Stolen Life (2005). It analyses issues of mise-en-scene from the perspective of composition, camera movement and choreography of characters within the frame. Taking in equal measure from David Bordwell’s classic work on mise-en-scene and Adrian Martin’s recent espousal of social mise-en-scene, I shall be arguing that Li’s work presents rich social description but also provides an account of agency and transcendence. My analysis of Stolen Life acknowledges Li Shaohong’s deployment of familiar tropes from popular storytelling, while giving emphasis to the distinct variations that she provides throughout the film.","PeriodicalId":41198,"journal":{"name":"Asian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/AC.29.2.243_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47502180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}