East Asian cinema has become a worldwide phenonemon, and directors such as Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar Wai, and Takashi Miike have become household names. Dekalog 4: On East Asian Filmmakers solicits scholars from Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, North America, and the U.K. to offer unique readings of selected East Asian directors and their works. Directors examined include Zhang Yimou, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Rithy Panh, Kinji Fukasaku, and Jia Zhangke, and the volume includes one of the first surveys of Japanese and Chinese female filmmakers, providing singular insight into East Asian film and the filmmakers that have brought it global recognition.
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: On East Asian Filmmakers
- An Interview with Naomi Kawase
- Women's Trajectories in Chinese and Japanese Cinemas: A Chronological Overview
- Fusion Cinema: The Relationship Between Jia Zhangke's Films Dong and Still Life
- From the Art House to the Mainstream: Artistry and Commercialism in Zhang Yimou's Filmmaking
- Feng Xiaogang and Ning Hao: Directing China's New Film Comedies
- Recuperating Displacement: the Search for Alternative Narratives in Tsai Ming-Liang's The Hole and What Time is it There?
- De-Mystifying a Postwar Myth: Reading Fukasaku's Jinginaki Tatakai
- Gathering Dust in the Wind: Memory and 'Real' in Rithy Panh's S21
- Black Hole In the Sky, Total Eclipse Under the Ground: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Ontological Turn of Cinema
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