Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia [First Edition] 1403977518, 9781403977519

This book crosses the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cine

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Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Introduction: Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia......Page 14
Part 1 India......Page 22
1 Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City......Page 24
2 Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Popular Hindi Cinema......Page 42
3 Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the “New Bollywood”......Page 58
4 Islamic “Terrorism” and Visions of Justice in Khalid Mohamed’s Fiza......Page 76
Part 2 Southeast Asia......Page 96
5 The Poverty of Justice: Postcolonial Condition and Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema......Page 98
6 Shadowboxing with the Censors: A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story......Page 114
Part 3 Northeast Asia......Page 134
7 Oshima Nagisa’s Ai no korida Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema......Page 136
8 Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in Recent South Korean Cinema: The Road Taken (Seontaek) and Its Genre......Page 154
Part 4 China......Page 172
9 Did Qiu Ju Get Good Legal Advice?......Page 174
10 Blood in the Bathroom: Shanghai Triad as Gangster Noir......Page 188
11 Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen......Page 208
12 Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen......Page 226
B......Page 244
D......Page 245
I......Page 246
M......Page 247
P......Page 248
S......Page 249
Y......Page 250
Z......Page 251

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