How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong

This collection of essays explores the mosaic of East Asian cinema by focusing on issues of identity, history and trans-regional cultural flow within this dynamic region. Theargument of the editors is two-fold: cinematic cross-pollination within East Asian film has been a constant since 1945, and any discussion of the complex identity of East Asia and its national cinemas must consider regional historical issues. These arguments run counter to recent literature published in the field of East Asian cinema that claim responses to Western globalization and modernization are the shaping forces for Asian cultural identity.How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, was published 2007 under ISBN 9780773454989 and ISBN 0773454985.