Introduction: Trans-Asian Cinemas at Home in the World Zhen Zhang, Sangjoon Lee, Debashree Mukherjee and Intan Paramaditha SECTION I: Cine-activism & Feminist Aesthetics Introduction Zhen Zhang 1. Film Societies and the Screen within the Crowd in Bangladesh
2. Genres of Ecofeminism: Women Filmmakers in India and the Environment
3. Rewriting History, Changing the Story: An Interview with Anocha Suwichakornpong
4. Riding the Waves: An Interview with Yim Soon-Rye Shin Chi-yun 5. Through the Lens of South Korean Cine-feminism: House of Hummingbird (2018) and Moving On (2020)
6. Transnational Women’s Cinema in Southeast Asia: The Case of Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts Intan Paramaditha 7. Taiwan Queer Cinema, Marriage Equality, and Homo(trans)nationalism
8. Love In Pacific Time: Asian Screen Culture in Vancouver SECTION II: Mediating Colonial, National and Trans-Asian Imaginaries Introduction Debashree Mukherjee 9. What Is “Asian Cinema” in Japan? Film and Political Economy in the 1940s
10. Filming Taiwan Between a Quest for Artistic Purity and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China: The Case of Taiwan Wangshi (My Bittersweet Taiwan, 2004) Zhuoyi Wang 11. In the Name of Love: Screen Representations of Taiwanese Indigenous People (1920s-1940s)
12. Desiring Nanyang, Nation, and Home: Fictions of Belonging in Two Rediscovered Post-war Films from Singapore
13. Where is Shangri-La? Imagining Kathmandu in Film
14. Affective-Scap/ing in Zhang Lu's Inter-Asian Quartet
15. Postcards from Russia: Left Discourse and Telugu Cinema SECTION III: Trans-border Industrial Cultures: Imagined Audiences and Diasporic Dreams Introduction Debashree Mukherjee 16. Media Topographies of East Asia: Cinema, Cables, Wirelessness and the (Somewhat) Material Imaginaries of Territory
17. Looking Out and On the Move: Aesthetics of Infrastructure in Recent Singapore Cinema
18. North Korea’s International Co-production Ventures: Nation and the Post-national
19. Trans-Asian Circuits of Cinema and Media Exchange Between Australia and Asia
20. Global Stories, Local Audiences: Dubbing Netflix in India
21. Webtoon-based Korean Films on Netflix: Shifting Media Ecology in the Digital Platform Era
22. Exile at the Edges: Donald Richie at the Pinch Point between Japan and the World
23. Trans-Pacific Connection and Cine Nikkei in Peru: A Conversation Jimena Mora and Talia Vidal with Zhen Zhang SECTION IV: Beyond Genre: Modes, Motifs, Memories Introduction Intan Paramaditha 24. The Melodramatic Mode in Asian Cinema: Usmar Ismail’s Lewat Djam Malam (After the Curfew)
25. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite as a Remake of Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid: Creating an Aesthetic Genealogy within South Korean Cinema
26. Melting the Iron Curtain: Metal-morphosis and the Caricatured Western Leaders in Agitprop Animation in Socialist China, 1949-1965
27. The “Mirrored” Cultural Revolution – The Geo-political Making of Apolitical Hero in Chang Cheh’s The Assassin 28. Listening to Small-Gauge Stories: Sonic Memories and Sensory Histories in Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000) and Big Boy (Shireen Seno, 2011)
29. Global Aspirations/ Local Affilations: Exploring the tensions of “Post-Crisis” Thai Cinema, 1997-2004
30. Revisiting the Face Veil in Post-Pandemic Times: The Fhyun Humane Visual Ethics of Indonesian Islamic Filmmaking Alicia Izharuddin 31. Karma-Image; Insight-Image: On Buddhism and the Cinema
32. Personality and Morality in Screen Performance: Hong Kong Film Criticism and Social Reform of the 1920s Enoch Yee-lok Tam SECTION V: Independent Practice: Networks, Labor, and Voices at the Margins Introduction Intan Paramaditha 33. ‘Still Doing It Themselves, With a Little Help from Friends’: Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia Two Decades Hence
34. Slippers Outside the Door: An Annotated Interview with Tan Pin Pin
35. Let’s Love Hong Kong: Hyper-density, Virtual Possibility, and Queer Women in Hong Kong Independent Film Arnika Fuhrmann 36. Care in Filming, Change by Love
37. Domestic temporalities and film practice: Los Otros, Quezon City and Forum Lenteng, Jakarta
38. Unstable Pixels, Modular Selves: Digital Subjectivity in Chinese Independent Animations
39. Experimentation and Transnational Influences: Documentary Film in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia Eric Sasono 40. Filming Resistance: A Conversation with Deepa Dhanraj Fatima Nizaruddin SECTION VI: Archives, Festivals, and Film Pedagogy Introduction Sangjoon Lee 41. Festivalizations and Cultural Constructions of “Asian Cinema”
42. Curating the City: 10 Years of the Urban Lens Documentary Festival in Bangalore Subasri Krishnan 43. To Be Continued: Women Make Waves
44. Film Festival Journeys - Past, Present, Future: A Conversation with Roger Garcia Thong Kay Wee 45. Reflection on Film Restoration, Acculturatie and Democracy - The Case Studies of Lewat Djam Malam and Aladin 46. Thai Film Archive and Early Thai Queer Cinema and Atit Pongpanit