Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

1. Introduction Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia
Corey K. Creekmur

Part 1. India

2. Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City
Lawrence Liang

3. Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Popular Hindi Cinema
Corey K. Creekmur

4. Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the “New Bollywood”
Meenakshi Gigi Durham

5. Islamic “Terrorism” and Visions of Justice in Khalid Mohamed’s F IZA

Priya Kumar

Part 2. Southeast Asia

6. The Poverty of Justice: Postcolonial Condition and Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema
Rolando B. Tolentino

7. Shadowboxing with the Censors: A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story
Karen Turner

Part 3. Northeast Asia

8. Oshima Nagisa’s Ai no korida Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema
Hikari Hori

9. Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in Recent South Korean Cinema:The Road Taken (Seontaek) and Its Genre
Do-Hyun Han

Part 4. China

10. Did Qiu Ju Get Good Legal Advice?
Jerome A. Cohen, Joan Lebold Cohen

11. Blood in the Bathroom: Shanghai Triad as Gangster Noir

Mary Farquhar

12. Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen
Alison W. Conner

13. Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen
Yingjin Zhang

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Asian Politics, Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Industries, Regional and Cultural Studies