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Independent Filmmaking across borders in Contemporary Asia
Ran Ma
2019
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This book explores a body of contemporary independent films about border-crossing across various communities and places in Asia. Via diverse imaginaries and articulations of border-crossing as well as the leveraging of transborder dynamics, this cinema challenges essentialized understandings of identity, rethinking the local in relation to the regional and global. This book 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 films bear witness to and are shaped by the ongoing, historical processes of intra-Asia interaction characterized by geopolitical realignment, migration and population displacement. Border-crossing Cinema threads together case studies of internationally acclaimed filmmakers/collectives such as Zhang Lu, Kuzoku, Li Ying, Takamine Go, Midi Z and Tan Chuimui, all of whose transborder journeys and cinematic imaginations disrupt static identity affiliations built upon national, ethnic or cultural differences. This transborder filmmaking can be viewed as both an aesthetic practice and political act, reframing how people, places and their inter-connections can be perceived-opening up possibilities to reimagine Asia and its connections to globalization.
This book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books
This book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books
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Keywords
- Asia
- auteur
- border-crossing
- East Asia and Southeast Asia
- East Asia, Far East
- Film, TV & radio
- Films
- Films, cinema
- Geographical Qualifiers
- independent cinema
- KUnlatched
- Media and Communications
- Media Studies
- minor transnational filmmaking
- Performing Arts / Film & Video
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- South east asia
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FM South East Asia
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
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DOI: 10.1515/9789048537921Editions
