Review of: Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Brian Hu (2018)Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 264 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47442-845-3, h/bk, £75.00ISBN 978-1-47442-846-0, p/bk, £19.99
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Hooligan Sparrow breaks with many taboos in Chinese cinema. It is the first internationally acclaimed documentary by a Chinese female director to centre upon investigating the activities of Ye Haiyan, a Chinese sex and women’s rights activist, as well as to address the politically sensitive topic of sexual assault in China. This is the first study to examine the cinematic contributions of Wang Nanfu and Ye Haiyan’s activism and feminist writings posted on Ye’s online social media accounts on Sina Weibo and Twitter. I unpack the power dynamics in this documentary as well as the interplay between the filmmaker’s subjectivity and the female rights activist’s subjectivity. This study also investigates how masculine aesthetic representations of sexual assault in Chinese cinema have blurred the issue of consent and shows how the subjectivities of female directors like Wang Nanfu and Vivian Qu bring more impactful representations of sexual violence in Chinese cinema.
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This article studies Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay (2016) as a cinematic representation of Deleuze’s ‘minor literature’. I argue that the film gives rise to collective utterances against social and economic hegemony, particularly in its portrayal of Burmese immigrant characters who, as Agamben’s ‘bare life’, are subject to the violence underlying the biopower of neo-liberalism. A diasporic Burmese Chinese, Midi Z adopts the convention of cinema verité and fictionalizes the social reality of the migrant Burmese community. The Road to Mandalay articulates the pathos of those who are deprived of civil rights and who, in their negotiation with the exploitation of global capitalism, manage to survive in an interstitial space. The article unpacks the way the film allegorizes such a struggle in moments of surrealist and transcendental visions.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0008
Olivia Khoo
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this epilogue considers the future of regional Asian cinema. It develops a notion of regional intimacy, manifest in the interplay between new localisms and inter-nationalisms, to explore how Asian cinema might be understood and re-configured post-pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0007
Olivia Khoo
This chapter explores burgeoning technical developments in 3D filmmaking in Asia as practitioners aim to situate themselves as part of a regional hub for stereoscopic pre- and post-production and innovation. It takes as its case study the Singapore-Australia co-production Bait 3D (Kimble Rendall, 2012).
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0006
Olivia Khoo
This chapter explores issues of archiving and digital preservation in light of changing exhibition strategies, with a focus on the important roles played by the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and the Asian Film Archive (AFA) in the creation and maintenance of a regional Asian cinema. The chapter also considers the issue of archiving broadly, to encompass not only the physical preservation of films from Asia but also journals, societies, and other forums that have sought to preserve scholarly interpretations of those films.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0003
Olivia Khoo
This chapter explores remakes and omnibus films as specific forms of inter-Asian production. Although consideration has been paid to remakes of Asian cinema from Hollywood, there has been less attention paid to remakes from within Asia as a form of inter-Asian referencing. The chapter examines CJ Entertainment’s practice of regional localisation of its hit comedy Miss Granny (2014). The chapter also considers the resurgence of the omnibus film as a production practice targeted towards regional audiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0004
Olivia Khoo
This chapter examines how the growth of specialised Asian film festivals (e.g. Busan, Hong Kong, Udine) participates in the development of a regional Asian cinema. It also considers the rise of digital distribution and exhibition of Asian cinema through online streaming models such as Viddsee. The chapter explores how alternative circuits of distribution respond to and in turn precipitate different audience consumption practices as filmmakers continue to seek ways of making films that will cross national markets.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0001
Olivia Khoo
This introductory chapter sets out the book’s unique regional focus that distinguishes its approach from scholarly works that have regarded Asian cinema predominantly from a national cinema perspective. The chapter outlines the book’s innovative methodology derived from comparative film studies and inter-Asia cultural studies approaches.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461764.003.0005
Olivia Khoo
This chapter examines how the short format film contributes to the formation of queer Asian cinema as a category that incorporates the efforts of women filmmakers. It pays attention to how unique qualities of the short film allow women filmmakers to actively engage with each other’s work within and across the region, and how this transnational connection is redefining how we might come to understand the figure of the individual ‘auteur’ of Asian cinema.
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