Beskrivning
Beskrivning
This volume examines the transmission, reception, and reproduction ofnew cinematic styles, meanings, practices, and norms in earlytwenty-first-century Asia. Hong Kong andBollywood offers new answers to the field of inter-Asian cultural studies,which has been energized by the trends towards transnationalism andtranslatability. It brings together a team of international scholars tocapture the latest development in the film industries of Hong Kong and Mumbai,and to explore similar cross-cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues. Italso explains how Hong Kong and Bollywood filmmakers have gone beyond thetraditional focus on nationalism, urbanity and biculturalism to repositionthemselves as new cultural forces in the pantheon of global cinema.
