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Cinema and the Cultural Cold War - US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (Paperback)
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Cinema and the Cultural Cold War - US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (Paperback)
Series: The United States in the World
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Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar
Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and
competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the
height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously
global and regional approach when analyzing the region's film
cultures and industries. New economic conditions in the Asian
region and shared postwar experiences among the early cinema
entrepreneurs were influenced by Cold War politics, US cultural
diplomacy, and intensified cultural flows during the 1950s and
1960s. By taking a closer look at the cultural realities of this
tumultuous period, Lee comprehensively reconstructs Asian film
history in light of the international relationships forged, broken,
and re-established as the influence of the non-aligned movement
grew across the Cold War. Lee elucidates how motion picture
executives, creative personnel, policy makers, and intellectuals in
East and Southeast Asia aspired to industrialize their
Hollywood-inspired system in order to expand the market and raise
the competitiveness of their cultural products. They did this by
forming the Federation of Motion Picture Producers in Asia,
co-hosting the Asian Film Festival, and co-producing films. Cinema
and the Cultural Cold War demonstrates that the emergence of the
first intensive postwar film producers' network in Asia was, in
large part, the offspring of Cold War cultural politics and the
product of American hegemony. Film festivals that took place in
cities as diverse as Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur
were annual showcases of cinematic talent as well as opportunities
for the Central Intelligence Agency to establish and maintain
cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the United
States and Asia during the Cold War. Cinema and the Cultural Cold
War reanimates this almost-forgotten history of cinema and the film
industry in Asia.
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