Melodrama and Asian Cinema

Name: Melodrama and Asian Cinema
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ISBN: 9780521612081

ISBN-10: 052161208X

ISBN-13: 9780521612081

Edition: 2005

Authors: Wimal Dissanayake, William Rothman, Dudley Andrew

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Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. Exploring the various ways that melodrama operates with theoretical sophistication, the various essays contained in this volume shed light on the different traditions of Asian cinema, as well as on the wider cultural discourse in which they participate.

Book details

List price: $69.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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Introduction



Melodrama/subjectivity/ideology: Western melodrama theories and their relevance (or not) to recent Chinese cinema



Symbolic representation and symbolic violence: Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980's



The Goddess Reflections on melodrama East and West



History and its discontent: melodrama as historical understanding



Melodrama, postmodernism and Japanese cinema



Staging the subject: the melodramatisation of gender in An Actor's Revenge



Insiders and outsiders: cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama



Psyches, ideologies and melodrama: US and Japan



Andaz



The concept of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: an evolving dialectic



Politics of melodrama in Indonesian cinema



Power, pleasure and desire: the female body in Filipino melodrama



The register of nightmare: melodrama as it (dis)appears in Australian film



Overview: what is American about film study in America?