TY - BOOK AU - Chan,Felicia AU - Karpovich,Angelina AU - Zhang,Xin TI - Genre in Asian film and television : new approaches SN - 9780230272170 U1 - 791.436095 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Motion pictures KW - Asia KW - Documentary films KW - Television programs KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General KW - bisacsh KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction / F.Chan & A.Karpovich -- NON-FICTION GENRES : Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali / M. Hobart -- Law Through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon's Choice: A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education Through Television in Korea / J.Y. Park -- Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women Through the Lens of Documentary Films / C.J. Pang -- Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity, and the Construction of 'The Native' in Two Recent Taiwanese Documentaries / H.S. Liao -- RECONSIDERING MAINSTREAM GENRES. Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China / X. Zhang -- Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema / M. Christopher -- De-Freezing Notions of the Indian Mythological / V.T. Vardhan -- The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre / V. Vitali -- From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera / T. Trifonova -- GENRE AND CROSS-CULTURAL REPRESENTATION. (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle / A. Karpovich -- The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime's Dreams of Europe / C. Van Staden -- The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of 'Asia' in Bengali Films / M. Mukherjee -- Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in Takashi Miike's The Bird People in China and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever / F. Chan -- East Asian Pop Culture / C.B. Huat N2 - "Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes"-- ER -