Asian Cinema and the Use of Space

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Edited by Lilian Chee and Edna Lim

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Asia

Keywords

Asia, cinema space

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

1st publishing

2015

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 268 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-54904-3

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Book Presentation:
Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia.

Concentrating on the performative potential of cinematic space in Asian films, the contributors discuss how space (re)constructs forms of identities and meanings across a range of cinematic practices. Cities, landscapes, buildings and interiors actively shape cinematic performances of such identities and their significances. The essays are structured around the spatial themes of ephemeral, imagined and contested spaces. They deal with struggles for identity, belonging, autonomy and mobility within different national and transnational contexts across East, Southeast and parts of South Asia in particular, which are complicated by micropolitics and subcultures, and by the interventions and interests of global lobbies.

About the authors:
Lilian Chee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore.

Edna Lim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.

See the publisher website: Routledge