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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457145903321

Titolo

Cinema at the City's Edge : Film and Urban Networks in East Asia / / edited by Yomi Braester and James Tweedie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2010

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012

©2010

ISBN

988-220-673-5

1-283-01692-3

9786613016928

988-220-605-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

TransAsia: screen cultures

Altri autori (Persone)

TweedieJames

BraesterYomi

Disciplina

791.43095

808.823

Soggetti

Cities and towns in motion pictures

Urbanization - East Asia

Cities and towns - East Asia - Growth

Digital cinematography - East Asia

Motion pictures - East Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume is the outcome of a conference held at the University of Washington in April 2006"--Acknowledgements.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The city's edge / James Tweedie and Yomi Braester -- Interlude 1: Arriving in the city; touring the city; watching the city / Yomi Braester -- Affective spaces in Hong Kong / Chinese cinema / Ackbar Abbas -- Ghost towns / Dudley Andrew -- Interlude 2: Workspace / James Tweedie -- Taipei as Shinijuku's other / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- City of youth, ocean of death: Taiyōzooku on the edge of an island / Yiman Wang -- Interlude 3: Neon / James Tweedie -- Transfiguring the postsocialist city: experimental image-making in contemporary China / Zhang Zhen -- Noir looks and flash of



transgression: trauma and the city's edge(s) in A bittersweet life / Susie Jie Young Kim -- Technology and (Chinese) ethnicity / Darrell William Davis -- Interlude 4: In the name of the city / Yomi Braester -- Imaging the globalized city: Rem Koolhaas, U-theque, and the Pearl River Delta / Chris Berry -- At the center of the outside: Japanese cinema nowhere / Akira Mizuta Lippit.

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema has been a primary mechanism for entertaining migrants to the modern city, recording and displaying a historically new experience to urban populations themselves, while also disseminating the city's promise around the world. But recent city films betray an awareness that the experience of urban life has changed with the dynamic energies and burdens of globalization, with the era of digital video now upon us, and with the emergence of almost limitless megacities throughout East Asia. Contemporary films from the region help define the urban experience in these new environments. These essa