How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examin

This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and

Film directors from East Asia frequently win top prizes at international film festivals, but few books have been published about them. The films of these countr

Film directors from East Asia frequently win top prizes at international film festivals, and are proving a strong influence on Western filmmakers but few books

Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Sh