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This book focuses on a representative group of contemporary Chinese female celebrities including actors, directors, writers and reporters, notably personalities such as Liu Xiaoqing, Hong Huang, Chai Jing and the most sought after young generation actors, Yang Mi and Guan Xiaotong. It analyses the on- and off- screen roles of these famous Chinese women, and the cultural, gender and social impact and significance embedded in them, whilst highlighting controversial social and cultural concerns and debates in contemporary China. The book furthers the understanding of the role played by contemporary female celebrities who are considered as social, cultural and feminist icons in present-day China, as reflected in their work, careers and private lives, and whose experiences help to understand Chinese women’s attitudes towards key issues such as career trajectories, marriage and family, gender identity, social changes, civil debates and political transformations, all of which are at the center of societal transformation in China. .

Women --- Women. --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Women's Studies. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Culture and Gender. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Social aspects

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This book examines how filmmakers, curators, and critics created a category of transnational, Korean-in-Japan (Zainichi) Cinema, focussing on the period from the 1960s onwards. An enormously diverse swathe of films have been claimed for this cinema of the Korean diaspora, ranging across major studio yakuza films and melodramas, news reels created by ethnic associations, first-person video essays, and unlikely hits that crossed over from the indie distribution circuit to have a wide impact across the media landscape. Today, Zainichi-themed works have never had a higher profile, with new works by Matsue Tetsuaki, Sai Yoichi, and Yang Yonghi frequently shown at international festivals. Zainichi Cinema argues that central to this transnational cinema is the tension between films with an authorized claim to “represent”, and ambiguous and borderline works that require an active spectator to claim them as images of the Korean diaspora.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Motion pictures --- World history. --- Ethnicity. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Asian Cinema. --- Asian Culture. --- Ethnicity Studies. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Study and teaching. --- Asia. --- Koreans --- Motion pictures, Japanese --- Ethnic identity. --- History --- Japanese motion pictures --- Foreign films --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Universal history --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Ethnology—Asia.

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This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China’s twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China’s politics, economy, and culture, the book provides insights on fascinating new developments in contemporary Chinese popular culture—including its reality television, family dramas centered around younger generations’ life struggles, and social media. Furthermore, Entertainment and Politics in Contemporary China is the first book to apply the theoretical innovation of an aesthetic public sphere in examining closely the linkages between China’s political life and activities in the country’s culture sphere. Since concepts of public sphere and democracy largely took root from the West, Wu argues that this case study of China promises valuable insights about entertainment’s role in the formation of citizenship and building of a civil society, which remains a site of great contention in Western theories and empirical efforts.

Communism --- Communication. --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Asia-Politics and government. --- Social media. --- Media and Communication. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Asian Culture. --- Asian Politics. --- Social Media. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Asia—Politics and government.

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This book explores the rich complexity of Japan’s film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology. Focusing on techniques that draw attention to the interval between frames on the filmstrip, something that is generally obscured in narrative film, Lee uncovers a chief mechanism by which, from its earliest period, the medium has capitalized on its materiality to instantiate its contemporaneity. In doing so, cinema has bound itself tightly with adjacent visual forms such as anime and manga to redefine itself across its history of interaction with new media, including television, video, and digital formats. Japanese Cinema Between Frames is a bold examination of Japanese film aesthetics that reframes the nation’s cinema history, illuminating processes that have both contributed to the unique texture of Japanese films and yoked the nation’s cinema to the global sphere of film history.

Motion pictures --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Motion pictures. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Asian Culture. --- Film Theory. --- Global Cinema and TV. --- Close Reading. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Ethnology—Asia.

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Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.

New wave films --- Motion pictures and globalization --- Globalization and motion pictures --- Globalization --- New wave (Motion pictures) --- New wave cinema --- Nouvelle vague (Motion pictures) --- Nouvelles vagues (Motion pictures) --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Oriental literature. --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Asian Literature. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Asian literature --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Asian Film and TV. --- Asia.