{"product_id":"melodrama-and-asian-cinema-hardback-9780521414654","title":"Melodrama and Asian Cinema (Hardback) 9780521414654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMelodrama and Asian Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWimal Dissanayake (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521414654, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 May 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The essays in Wimal Dissanayake's volume illustrate the importance of melodrama to Chinese film studies. Informed by multiple theoretical models, they offer many interesting...readings of Chinese films.\"   Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. Exploring the various ways that melodrama operates with theoretical sophistication, the various essays contained in this volume shed light on the different traditions of Asian cinema, as well as on the wider cultural discourse in which they participate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Melodrama\/subjectivity\/ideology: Western melodrama theories and their relevance (or not) to recent Chinese cinema\u003cbr\u003e 3. Symbolic representation and symbolic violence: Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980's\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Goddess. Reflections on melodrama East and West\u003cbr\u003e 5. History and its discontent: melodrama as historical understanding\u003cbr\u003e 6. Melodrama, postmodernism and Japanese cinema\u003cbr\u003e 7. Staging the subject: the melodramatisation of gender in An Actor's Revenge\u003cbr\u003e 8. Insiders and outsiders: cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama\u003cbr\u003e 9. Psyches, ideologies and melodrama: US and Japan\u003cbr\u003e 10. Andaz\u003cbr\u003e 11. The concept of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: an evolving dialectic\u003cbr\u003e 12. Politics of melodrama in Indonesian cinema\u003cbr\u003e 13. Power, pleasure and desire: the female body in Filipino melodrama\u003cbr\u003e 14. The register of nightmare: melodrama as it (dis)appears in Australian film\u003cbr\u003e 15. Overview: what is American about film study in America?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Films, cinema [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Films, cinema\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Films,%20cinema%20%5BAPF%5D%22\"\u003eAPF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005371896088,"sku":"9780521414654","price":94.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521414654i_e6804eff-2394-4d54-9815-748803c292f7.jpg?v=1691381336","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/melodrama-and-asian-cinema-hardback-9780521414654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}