This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency
in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses
several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and
exhibition practices of East Asian genre films, intra-regional creative
flow of screen culture, and genre's creative response to censorship. The
volume expands the scholarly discussion of the rich heritage and
fast-changing landscape of filmmaking in East Asian cinemas. Confronting
the complex interaction between genres, filmic narrative and aesthetics,
film history and politics, and cross-cultural translation, this book not
only reevaluates genre's role in film production, distribution, and
consumption, but also tackles several under-explored areas in film
studies and transnational cinema, such as the history of East Asian
commercial cinema, the East Asian film industry, and cross-media and
cross-market film dissemination.