Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas

• Autore: Lee Sangjoon
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.436582825
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Asia / Korea
• Soggetto non controllato: Cinema and Cold War, Cultural Cold War, Film History, Cinema and Politics, Psychological War, Southeast Asian Cinema, East Asian Cinema, South Asian Cinema
• Altri autori: EspenaDarlene
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction: Locating "Asia" in the Cinematic Cold War -- Part One Cinematic Constructions of the Cold War in Asia -- 2. Taiwanese-Language Cinema as Cold War Industry and Culture : Compliance without Commitment -- 3. Landscape, Identity, and War : The Poetic Revolutionary Cinema of North Vietnam -- 4. Screening the Cold War in Cambodia : The Films of Norodom Sihanouk and Rithy Panh -- 5. Islam and the Cultural Cold War : Tauhid and the Quest for the Modern Muslim -- Part Two Cold War Geopolitics in Asian Cinemas -- 6. Third World, First World: Ishihara Yūjirō as a Cold War Star -- 7. Right Screen in Hong Kong : Chang Kuo-sin's Asia Pictures and The Heroine -- 8. Cold War Myth from Elite Democracy to Martial Law in the Genre Cinema of Fernando Poe Jr. in the 1960s and 1970s -- 9. Silver Screen Reversals of the Domino Theory : American Cold War Movies and the Re-imagining of Britain's Experience in Southeast Asia -- 10. Ugly Americans and Indeterminate Asians : Strategies/Symptoms of Southeast Asian Representation in Cold War US Film -- Part Three Cold War Film Genres -- 11. Counter-Occupying Americanism in South Korea and Taiwan : Taking Back the Spaces of US Base Culture in the Cold War Musical Number -- 12. SOS Hong Kong: Coproducing Espionage Films in Cold War Asia -- 13. Cosmopolitan Kŏjedo : Swing Kids (2018) and Historical Memories of the Korean War -- 14. Spectacle of Violence and the Beiqing Masculine : Post-War Structure of Feeling in Taiwan Pulp -- Part Four The Long Shadow of the Cold War in Contemporary Asian Cinemas -- 15. Memories of the Future : Speculative Cold War Histories in Yosep Anggi Noen's The Science of Fictions and Daniel Hui's Snakeskin -- 16. A Frozen Fraternity : Kung Fu Yoga and Cold War Archaeologies -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the popularity of CIA-sponsored espionage films in Hong Kong and South Korea to the enduring Cold War rhetoric of brotherly relations in contemporary Sino-Indian co-production, cinema has always been a focal point of the cultural Cold War in Asia. Historically, both the United States and the Soviet Union viewed cinema as a powerful weapon in the battle to win hearts and minds-not just in Europe, but also in Asia. The Cold War in Asia was, properly speaking, a hot war, with proxy military confrontations between the United States, on one side, and the Soviet Union and China on the other. Amid this political and military turbulence, cataclysmic shifts occurred in the culture and history of Asian cinemas as well as in the latitude of US cultural diplomacy in Asia. The collection of essays in this volume sheds light on the often-forgotten history of the cultural Cold War in Asia. Taken together, the volume's fifteen chapters examine film cultures and industries in Asia to showcase the magnitude and depth of the Cold War's impact on Asian cinemas, societies, and politics. By shifting the lens to Asia, the contributors to this volume re-examine the dominant narratives about the global Cold War and highlight the complex and unique ways in which Asian societies negotiated, contested, and adapted to the politics and cultural manifestations of the Cold War.
• Titolo autorizzato: Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
• ISBN: 1-003-70270-8; 1-04-077408-3; 90-485-5588-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910866361703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Asian Cinemas Series