Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia

• Hoofdauteur: Ma, Ran (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2019
• Reeks: Asian Visual Cultures
• Onderwerpen: South East Asia; East Asia, Far East; Films, cinema; Media studies; Films; media studies; Asia
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Samenvatting

Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant yet unevenly developed independent film movements amidst global neoliberalism. These projects bear witness to and are shaped by the ongoing historical processes of inter-Asia interaction characterized by geopolitical realignment, migration, and population displacement. This study threads together case studies of internationally acclaimed filmmakers, artists, and collectives such as Zhang Lu, Kuzoku, Li Ying, Takamine Go, Yamashiro Chikako, and Midi Z, all of whose transborder journeys and cinematic imaginations disrupt static identity affiliations built upon national, ethnic, or cultural differences. This border-crossing filmmaking can be viewed as both an aesthetic practice and a political act, reframing how people, places, and their interconnections can be perceived - thereby opening up possibilities to reimagine Asia and its connections to globalization.

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1 electronic resource (273 p.)

ISBN

9789048537921

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Open Access