Inter-Asia Intermediality

Creative Labor, Co-Production, and Outsourcing
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-90-485-6905-2
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Asian Visual Cultures

This volume represents the first sustained effort to cast the concepts of inter-Asia and intermediality into a mutually informative dialogue, questioning how they demarcate boundaries within area and media studies.

Probing beyond conventional definitions, the book examines how inter-Asian co-productions, vernacular intermediality, and transboundary outsourcing reconfigure cultural and area studies. Scholars of East, South, and Southeast Asian film and media based in North America and the Asia-Pacific explore how cinema draws on vernacular cultural and aesthetic forms including newspapers, radio, music, poetry, dance, and theatre. Chapters reveal how co-productions across national, linguistic, ethnic, and media boundaries unsettle understandings of region through the outsourcing of creative labor to animators, designers, programmers, translators, and dubbers in distant locations who concretely shape content meaning. This creative labor unveils hierarchies, frictions, and discontinuities that challenge bounded, homogeneous understandings of media circulation and regional identity.

Inter-Asia Intermediality is essential reading for scholars and students of Asian cinema and media studies, cultural studies, and area studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernards, Brian

Gonzaga, Elmo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Inter-Asian Mobilities  1. The Warehouse as Intermedial Zone: Assemblages of Intra-Asian Art and Cinema 2. Amaravati, Baahubali and Hindu Nationalism’s Technological Futurities 3. OFW Films and the Intermedial Migration of Subgenre  Part II: Vernacular Intermediality 4. After the Curfew, Before the Digital: The Rise of Intermedial “Malay” Cinema in 1950s Indonesia 5. The Igorot Vlogger: Indigenous Peoples as Migrant Domestic Worker Influencers 6. “This Is a Trial, Not a Performance”: Tracing Inter-Asian Connections Through the “Elders’ Drinking Song” 7. A Cinema of Parts: Apichatpong Weeraethakul's Generative Voice  Part III: Transboundary Co-Producing  8. A World of Premieres: Taste, Multi-region Co-productions in Pandemic Times and Six Theses on Intermediality 9. Intraregional Star Currency: Michelle Yeoh’s Goodwill Image and Her Southeast Asian Connections in the Intermedial Space 10. Dubbing, Collecting, and Cinephilic Storytelling: Inter-Asia and Intermedia Hong Kong Film Memories in Thailand 11. Intermedial Labor in a Minor Mode: Creators, Animators, and Queer Girls’ Love Fans in the Philippines, Asia, and Beyond 12. Afterword: “Dynamics of Towardness”: Intermediating Asia

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Bernards is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, specializing in Sinophone and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, inter-Asia cultural studies, and translingual postcolonial studies. He is author of Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature (2015/2016) and a co-editor of Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (2013). His articles have appeared in journals such as Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, positions: asia critique, Asian Cinema, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Studies, and Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature.

Elmo Gonzaga is Associate Professor and Director of the MA in Intercultural Studies Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His interests straddle Southeast Asian, Inter-Asian, and South-South film, media, and urban cultures. He is the author of Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity (2023). His work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, South East Asia Research, and the Journal of Asian Studies.