Melodrama and Asian Cinema

Zusammenfassung This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan! India! China! Indonesia! the Philippines and Australia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Melodrama/subjectivity/ideology: Western melodrama theories and their relevance (or not) to recent Chinese cinema; 3. Symbolic representation and symbolic violence: Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980's; 4. The Goddess. Reflections on melodrama East and West; 5. History and its discontent: melodrama as historical understanding; 6. Melodrama, postmodernism and Japanese cinema; 7. Staging the subject: the melodramatisation of gender in An Actor's Revenge; 8. Insiders and outsiders: cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama; 9. Psyches, ideologies and melodrama: US and Japan; 10. Andaz; 11. The concept of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: an evolving dialectic; 12. Politics of melodrama in Indonesian cinema; 13. Power, pleasure and desire: the female body in Filipino melodrama; 14. The register of nightmare: melodrama as it (dis)appears in Australian film; 15. Overview: what is American about film study in America?

Product details

• Authors: Wimal Dissanayake
• Assisted by: Dudley Andrew (Editor), Wimal Dissanayake (Editor), Dissanayake Wimal (Editor), William Rothman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.1993
• EAN: 9780521414654
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41465-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Asia, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General