Genre in Asian Film and Television

1. Introduction
Felicia Chan, Angelina Karpovich

Part I. Non-Fiction Genres

2. Live or Dead? Televised Theatre and its Audiences in Bali
Mark Hobart

3. Law through a Hybrid Genre in Solomon’s Choice: A Case Study of a Reflection on Law Education through Television in Korea
Ji Yun Park

4. Eyes of the Other: The Role of Chinese Women through the Lens of Documentary Films
Cecilia J. Pang

5. Almost Propaganda But Not Quite: Identity, Modernity and the Construction of ‘The Native’ in Gift of Life and Viva Tonal

Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao

Part II. Reconsidering Mainstream Genres

6. Between Mainstream and Alternative: Dialect Drama in China
Xin Zhang

7. Everything Masala? Genres in Tamil Cinema
Michael Christopher

8. Defreezing Notions of the Indian Mythological
T. Vishnu Vardhan

9. The Hindi Horror Film: Notes on the Realism of a Marginal Genre
Valentina Vitali

10. From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera

Temenuga Trifonova

Part III. Genre and Cross-Cultural Representation

11. (In)Action Film: Genre and Identity in Rashid Nugmanov’s The Needle

Angelina Karpovich

12. The Golden Glow of the Alps: Capitalism, Globalization and Anime’s Dreams of Europe
Cobus Staden

13. The Other and the Neighbour: Negotiating Representations of ‘Asia’ in Bengali Films
Madhuja Mukherjee

14. Genre as Cultural Whimsy: Taking to the Road in The Bird People in China and Cold Fever

Felicia Chan

15. East Asian Pop Culture
Chua Beng Huat

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Research, Genre