Cinema, law and the state in Asia /
This book crosses the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema. It not only addresses the representation of law on screen (for example, through discussions of how lawyers, police, and prisons are depicted, or how courtroom sequences functio...
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA
- Islamic Terrorism, Secularism, and Visions of Justice in India: Khalid Mohamed's Fiza / Priya Kumar
- Cinematic Citizenship and the Illegal City / Lawrence Liang
- Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Hindi Popular Cinema / Corey K. Creekmur
- Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the New Bollywood / Meenakshi Gigi Durham
- PART II: SOUTHEAST ASIA
- Flexible Justice: A Woman Directs the Camera in Post-War Vietnam / Karen Turner
- Bar Girls (Gai Nhay), Heaven's Net (Luoi Troi), and the Rise of a New Realist Cinema in Vietnam / Mark Sidel
- Judicial Lack and Excess: Postcolonial Condition, Transnational Desire, and the Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema / Rolando Tolentino
- PART III: EAST ASIA
- The Road Taken (Seontaek): Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in South Korea / Do-Hyun Han
- Oshima's Bullfight of Love Reconsidered: Law, Sexually Explicit Film, and Gender in Japanese Cinema / Hikari Hori
- Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen in the Pre-War Era / Alison Conner
- Paradigms of Law and the State in Zhang Yimou's Filmmaking / Mary Farquhar
- Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen / Yingjin Zhang.
