Exploiting East Asian Cinemas Genre, Circulation, Reception [Hardcover]

From the 1970s onward, exploitation cinema as a concept has circulated inside and outside of East Asian nations and cultures in terms of aesthetics and marketing. However, crucial questions about how global networks of production and circulation alter the identity of an East Asian film as mainstream or as exploitation have yet to be addressed in a comprehensive way.Exploiting East Asian Cinemasserves as the first authoritative guide to the various ways in which contemporary cinema from and about East Asia has trafficked across the somewhat-elusive line between mainstream and exploitation.
Focusing on networks of circulation, distribution, and reception, this collection treats the exploitation cinemas of East Asia as mobile texts produced, consumed, and in many ways re-appropriated across national (and hemispheric) boundaries. As the processes of globalization have decoupled products from their nations of origin, transnational taste cultures have declared certain works as art or trash, regardless of how those works are received within their native locales. By charting the routes of circulation of notable films from Japan, China, and South Korea, this anthology contributes to transnationally-accepted formulations of what constitutes East Asian exploitation cinema.

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Acknowledgments
ForewordJulian Stringer(University of Nottingham, UK)
Notes on Text
Editors' IntroductionKen Provencher (Josai International University, Japan) and Mike Dillon (California State University at Fullerton, USA)
Part I: Genres Without Borders
1. Steampunked Kung Fu: Technologized Modernity in Stephen Fung'sTai ChiFilmsKenneth Chan(University of Northern Colorado, USA)
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