Asian Cinema Experience

This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas covering East Asia (China Japan South Korea Hong Kong Taiwan) Southeast Asia (Thailand Singapore Malaysia) South Asia (Bollywood) and West Asia (Iran) in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of Asian Cinema. It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm.