Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film Industries

Eyal Ben-Ari, Heung-Wah Wong, Eyal Ben-Ari, Heung-Wah Wong

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781032159959
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000509441
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Regional Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book explores the roles cultural intermediaries play in East Asian cinema. Based on extensive original research, and viewing cinema from the social science perspective which emphasizes the social processes entailed in the cultural production, circulation, and consumption of films and the social relations they involve, rather than studying films as texts, the book examines issues such as the differences between individual and collective intermediaries, the diverse resources and services that they mediate, their social background and targeted audiences, and the political implications of their work. One important conclusion is that cultural intermediaries have been central to creating the whole "idea" of East Asian cinema.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• 1 What is worthy of viewing?: An introduction to cultural intermediaries in East Asian cinema
• 2 Going overseas and evolving locally: The strategies of a Japanese pink film company
• 3 Celebrities, Asian film, and a name economy
• 4 Audiences as cultural intermediaries: A case study from Kyoto, Japan
• 5 The role of film critics and scholars in the development of film industry in Japan and China
• 6 Festivals, finance, and global cultural intermediaries: Co-production and the shaping of ‘East Asian Cinema’
• 7 Cultural intermediaries are made not assumed: A case study of a Japanese short movie competition in Hong Kong
• 8 Women as cross-cultural intermediaries within the Chinese diaspora: The search for Esther Eng in S. Louisa Wei’s Golden Gate Girls (2013)
• Index