Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia (TransAsia: Screen Cultures)

The book traces common concerns among East Asian cinemas of Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the PRC, and Taiwan, and goes beyond the now familiar notion that the Asian metropolises are successful iterations of local identity within a global network. Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 List of Contributors 10 Introduction: The City’s Edge 14 Interlude 1 30 Arriving in the City 30 Touring the City 32 Watching the City 34 Part I - The City Vanishes 36 1 - Affective Spaces in Hong Kong/Chinese Cinema 38 2 - Ghost Towns 50 Interlude 2 62 Workspace 62 Part II - A Regional Network of Cities 66 3 - Taipei as Shinjuku’s Other 68 4 - City of Youth, Ocean of Death: Taiyozoku on the Edge of an Island 82 Interlude 3 102 Neon 102 Part III - The City of Media Networks 106 5 - Transfiguring the Postsocialist City: Experimental Image-Making in Contemporary China 108 6 - Noir Looks and the Flash of Transgression: Trauma and the City’s Edge(s) in A Bittersweet Life 132 7 - Technology and (Chinese) Ethnicity 150 Interlude 4 164 In the Name of the City 164 Part IV - The City Is Elsewhere 166 8 - Imaging the Globalized City: Rem Koolhaas, U-thèque, and the Pearl River Delta 168 9 - At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere 184 Notes 194 Index 210 Annotation This Anthology Includes A Number Of Leading Voices On Contemporary Asian Cinema Studies, Including Ackbar Abbas, Chris Berry, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Dudley Andrew, Yomi Braester, Susie Jie Young Kim, Akira Mizuta Lippit, James Tweedie, Wang Yiman And Zhang Zhen. Through A Range Of Interdisciplinary Responses That Simultaneously Investigate Film Practices And Technologies, The Contributors Offer A Timely Look At The Ever-shifting Cities In East Asia And Their Portrayal In Cinema. This anthology presents a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian cinema studies, including Ackbar Abbas, Chris Berry, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Dudley Andrew, Yomi Braester, Susie Jie Young Kim, Akira Mizuta Lippit, James Tweedie, Yiman Wang and Zhang Zhen. Through a range of interdisciplinary responses that simultaneously investigate film practices and technologies, the contributors offer a timely look at the ever-shifting cities in East Asia and their portrayal in cinema.