Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema

Dr. Peter C. Pugsley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He teaches in the subjects Asian Screen Media, Advanced Media Theory, Broadcast TV & Radio, and Japanese Media Cultures (taught in Kyoto, Japan). Peter was formerly based in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and also taught in the MA (Communications) at RMIT University. In October 2011 he was a Visiting Research fellow at Sophia University, Tokyo. In 2013 he published the sole-authored monograph Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema (Ashgate). His published work has appeared in refereed journals including Asian Studies Review, International Communication Gazette, Asian Journal of Communication, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies and Westminster Papers on Communication and Culture. Recent book chapters include 'Hong Kong Film as Crossover Cinema: Maintaining the HK Aesthetic', in Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception, (2013) edited by Sukhmani Khorana, Routledge, and ’Asia: The Nationalist Geopolitics of India's Hindi Cinema’, in The Routledge Companion to Film and Politics (2014), edited by Yannis Tzioumakis and Claire Molloy, Routledge, London.

List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

1 Indian Cinema’s New Aesthetic 13

2 Visual Decorum and Chasteness in Chinese Film 41

3 Maintaining Respectability in Singaporean and Malaysian Cinema 73

4 An Open Mind: Japanese Cinema’s Sexual Revolution 99

5 Culture, Tradition and Sexuality in South Korean Cinema 117

Conclusion 131

Films Cited 141

Bibliography 149

Index