Asian video cultures : in the penumbra of the global

The contributors to this volume theorize Asian video cultures in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures to complicate notions of the Asian experience of global media. Whether discussing video platforms in Japan and Indonesia, K-pop reception videos, amateur music videos circulated via microSD cards in India, or the censorship of Bollywood films in Nigeria, the essays trace the myriad ways Asian video reshapes media politics and aesthetic practices. While many influential commentators overlook, denounce, and trivialize Asian video, the contributors here show how it belongs to the shifting core of contemporary global media, thereby moving conversations about Asian media beyond static East-West imaginaries, residual Cold War mentalities, triumphalist declarations about resurgent Asias, and budding jingoisms. In so doing, they write Asia's vibrant media practices into the mainstream of global media and cultural theories while challenging and complicating hegemonic ideas about the global as well as digital media. Contributors. Conerly Casey, Jenny Chio, Michelle Cho, Kay Dickinson, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Feng-Mei Heberer, Tzu-hui Celina Hung, Rahul Mukherjee, Joshua Neves, Bhaskar Sarkar, Nishant Shah, Abhigyan Singh, SV Srinivas, Marc Steinberg, Chia-chi Wu, Patricia Zimmerman Infrastructures -- Video documentary and rural public culture in ethnic China / Jenny Chio -- Engagemedia: the Gado Gado tactics of Indonesia's new social media / Patricia R. Zimmerman -- Wei Dianying and Xiao Quexing: technologies of "small" and trans-Chinese -- Cinematic practices / Chia-chi Wu -- Converging contents and platforms: Niconico video and Japan's media-mix ecology / Marc Steinberg -- In access: digital video and the user / Nishant Shah -- Intimacies -- Microsd-ing "Mewati videos": circulation and regulation of a subaltern-popular -- Media culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh -- Documenting "immigrant brides" in multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung -- Bollywood banned and the electrifying palmasutra: the sensory politics of love and -- Pornography in northern nigeria / Conerly Casey -- The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German video works / Feng-Mei Heberer -- Speculations -- Politics in the age of youtube: degraded images and small-screen revolutions / S. V. Srinivas -- Pop cosmopolitics and k-pop video culture / Michelle Cho -- Videation: technological intimacy and the politics of global connection / Joshua Neves -- Staying alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS video culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- "Everyone's property": video copying, poetry, and revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I ​> ​Infrastructures 1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China 2. EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia 3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of “Small” and Trans-Chinese Screen Practices 4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan’s Media Mix Ecology 5. In Access: Digital Video and the User Part II ​> ​Intimacies 6. MicroSD-ing “Mewati Videos”: Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture 7. Documenting “Immigrant Brides” in Multicultural Taiwan 8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria 9. The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong’s Asian German Video Works Part III ​> ​Speculations 10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions 11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture 12. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection 13. Staying Alive: Imphal’s HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture 14. “Everyone’s Property”: Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia Bibliography Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y The contributors to this volume examine Asian video cultures--from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India--in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media