Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia (eBook)

COREY K. CREEKMUR is Associate Professor of English and Cinema, Comparative Literature Director, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, USA.MARK SIDEL is Professor of Law and International Affairs, University of Iowa, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, USA.

Introduction PART I: INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA Islamic 'Terrorism,' Secularism, and Visions of Justice in India: Khalid Mohamed's Fiza; P.Kumar Cinematic Citizenship and the Illegal City; L.Liang Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Hindi Popular Cinema; C.K.Creekmur Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the New Bollywood; M.G.Durham PART II: SOUTHEAST ASIA Flexible Justice: A Woman Directs the Camera in Post-War Vietnam; K.Turner Bar Girls (Gai Nhay), Heaven's Net (Luoi Troi), and the Rise of a New Realist Cinema in Vietnam; M.Sidel Judicial Lack and Excess: Postcolonial Condition, Transnational Desire, and the Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema; R.Tolentino PART III: EAST ASIA The Road Taken (Seontaek): Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in South Korea; D.Han Oshima's Bullfight of Love Reconsidered: Law, Sexually Explicit Film, and Gender in Japanese Cinema; H.Hori Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen in the Pre-War Era; A.Conner Paradigms of Law and the State in Zhang Yimou's Filmmaking; M.Farquhar Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen; Y.Zhang