Neves / Sarkar Asian Video Cultures

In the Penumbra of the Global
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7254-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

The contributors to this volume examine Asian video cultures—from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India—in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neves, Joshua

Sarkar, Bhaskar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. Infrastructures
1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China / Jenny Chio 35
2. EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia / Patricia R. Zimmerman 54
3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices / Chia-chi Wu 72
4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology / Marc Steinberg 91
5. In Access: Digital Video and the User / Nishant Shah 114
Part II. Intimacies
6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh 133
7. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung 158
8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey 176
9. The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works / Feng-Mei Heberer 198
Part III. Speculations
10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions / S. V. Srinivas 217
11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture / Michelle Cho 240
12. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection / Joshua Neves 266
13. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh 288
14. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson 307
Bibliography 327
Contributors 349
Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Neves is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.

Bhaskar Sarkar is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, also published by Duke University Press.