Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

Philippa Gates is an Associate Professor and the Film Studies Program Coordinator at Wilfrid Laurier University.

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. Topics include the reception of Hollywood films by Asian audiences, the construction of raced and gendered identity in Thai, Japanese, and Hong Kong cinemas, and pan-Pacific co-productions.

Introduction: The Reel Asian Exchange. Lisa Funnell and Philippa Gates Section I: Remixing/Remaking Formulas 1.Hong Kong Noir: American Film Noir and Asian Innovation, 1956-66, Philippa Gates 2. Drunken Master meets the Monkey King: Transnational Chinese Identities in Action, Lan Dong 3. Shoot-Out in Hokkaido: The "Wanderer" (Wataridori) Series and the Politics of Transnationality, Hiroshi Kitamura 4. Cultural Odor in the Global Order: Globalization and the Raced Japanese Body, Jun Okada Section II: Perception/Reception 5. Learning Bushid¿ from Abroad: Japanese Reactions to The Last Samurai, Jayson Makoto Chun 6. Illegitimate Gloss: From Anna Leonowens' Tuptim to Contemporary Thai/American Sexploitation, Pahole Sookkasikon 7. Translating Hollywood Film to Chinese Audience: The Role of Agency and Appropriation in Transnational Cultural Encounters, Zhiwei Xiao 8. Questions of Cultural Proximity and the "Asian Popular": South Korean Audiences Watching Zhang Yimou's Martial Arts Blockbusters, Nikki J.Y. Lee 9. Trans-Action: Epic Tensions and Ethics of Memory in East Asian Co-Productions, Yun Mi Hwang Section III: Female Fandom/ Stardom 10. Migrating West...to the East: Transnational Chinese Canadians in Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema, Lisa Funnell 11. From National Allegory to Global Commodity: The Cinematic Images of Gong Li, Ka F. Wong 12. The Transnational Journey of O Ren Ishii: The American Cultification of the Asian Female Avenger, Leung Wing-Fai Section IV: Emerging Subjectivities 13. Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Angela O'Hara 14. Adopted: Crossing (out) Boundaries of Adoptee Kinship and Global Belonging, Aino Rinhaug 15. Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama: Seven Orphans of Cape No. 7, Sheng-Mei Ma