Multiple Article Critique

Order Description Critique the following 8 articles in context with the key concepts, 1 page each. 1. Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, “National Cinema, Cultural Critique, Transnational Capital: the Films of Zhang Yimou,” in Lu (ed.), Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press, 1997), pp. 105-36. https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuwguxqh73q1lid/Transnational_Chinese_Cinemas.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: Fifth Generation, post-socialism, nation 2. Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, “Globalization and Youthful Subculture: The Chinese Sixth-Generation Films and the Dawn of a New Century” in Lau (ed.), Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003), pp. 13–27. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpxdzb6ktkna2k5/20170418T123517_culs30002_globalization_and_youthful_subculture_the_chinese_sixth-generation_films_and_the_dawn_of_a_new_century.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: Sixth Generation, globalisation, Chinese postmodernism, Chinese underground/independent filmmaking 3. RAJADHYAKSHA, Ashish. “The ‘Bollywoodization’ of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 4:1, (2003), pp.25-39. https://www.dropbox.com/s/pf3yud5kjhocsqz/20170418T123540_culs30002_the_bollywoodization_of_the_indian_cinema_cultural_nationalism_in_a_global_arena.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: transnationalism, globalisation, Bollywood, Indian popular cinemas, Hindu nationalism, global mobility, consumption, lifestyle culture, genre, global city 4. Chris Berry, “What is Transnational Cinema? Thinking from the Chinese Situation,” Transnational Cinemas, 1:2 (2010), pp. 111–127. https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4j4h3zmwlr1905/20170418T123545_culs30002_what_is_transnational_cinema_thinking_from_the_chinese_situation.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: Transnationalism, transnational action, martial arts cinema, Hong Kong action cinema, wuxia pian 5. Darrell William Davis and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, “Festivals, Events and Players” in Davis and Yeh, East Asian Screen Industries (London: British Film Institute, 2008), pp. 140-164. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ydtj3rmohh0x51/20170418T123555_culs30002_festivals_events_and_players.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: Cinema-as-institution, Film festivals as cultural gatekeepers/sites of transnational business, auteur 6. WALSH, John. “Hallyu as a Government Construct: The Korean Wave in the Context of Economic and Social Development.” in Yasue KUWAHARA (ed.) The Korean Wave: Popular Culture in Global Context. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp.13-31. https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqht7lz1qsh0by3/20170418T123627_culs30002_hallyu_as_a_government_construct_the_korean_wave_in_the_context_of_economic_and_social_development.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: K-pop, hallyu, culture as export commodity, relationship between state and culture, soft power, multimedia 7. Jinhee Choi, “Blockbusters, Korean Style” in Choi, The South Korean Film Renaissance – Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs (Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), pp. 31–59. https://www.dropbox.com/s/d22a17n0j0e9mpk/20170418T123640_culs30002_blockbusters_korean_style.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: blockbuster as production/marketing strategy, blockbuster aesthetics, spectacle, indigenisation 8. OH, Chuyun. “The Politics of the Dancing Body: Racialised and Gendered Femininity in Korean Pop.” in Yasue KUWAHARA (ed.) The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp.53-81. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xb1dn2cqaem2rdj/20170418T123649_culs30002_the_politics_of_the_dancing_body_racialised_and_gendered_femininity_in_korean_pop.pdf?dl=0 Key concepts: Hallyu, gender, transnational fandom, transnational stardom, transculturation